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The Manifest Image
by The Manifest Image
The 20th Century was the age of the Manifesto. No longer waiting to be retrospectively defined by critics and historians, writers like F.T.Marinetti, Tristan Tzara and Andre Breton took their identities, goals and methods into their own hands. They would decide what they are and how the world should be. Through manifestos, art and political movements would have a core set of documents that outlined their proposals, criticisms and practical solutions to problems they saw.Yet, too few of us today are aware of the profound changes these movements and manifestos had. That’s where we come in. We’ll be selecting manifestos from the 20th century: examining their form and rhetoric, the ideas within them, offering judgments, and tracing history, as well as engaging with the art, music and writing these manifestos would inspire. We aim to provide a copy of the core works that we look at in the description of each episode, so you can follow us.Hosted by Ariel de la Garza and Thomas Greengrass
Episodes
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Vicente Huidobro: Non Serviam
This week we venture into the Latin American avant garde with Vicente Huidobro’s Non Serviam. The first of several manifestos establishing the artist’s Creacionismo (Creationism), a novel approach to poetry that radically leaves behind all pretences to naturalism. Ostensibly written in 1916, Non...
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Bonus: The Philosophy of Art , Form and Content
This week, while we recover from technical difficulties, we bring you the first of a sporadic bonus-series on the philosophy of art and aesthetics. In this episode we look at the distinction between the content of a work of art and its form, as always mustering manifestos and artists along the…
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Bonus: Baseless Theories II
This week, while Thomas and Ariel are away, we bring the second episode of Baseless Theories. Each episode we bring you a series of wild speculations that don’t make it into the regular podcast. This week, did Oscar Wilde forsee his own fall? Tune in to find out. Our intro music is by Aron…
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Bonus: Baseless Theories I
This week, while Thomas and Ariel are away, we bring you a mini-episode the first of a recurring series: Baseless Theories. Each episode we bring you a series of wild speculations that don’t make it into the regular podcast. Did Matisse paint the first Francis Bacon? The first Rothko? Was he…
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Matisse The Fauve Paintings
This week, as we wrap up our Fauve digression, we take a look at a selection of Matisse’s Fauve paintings. In them we find the growth of Matisse’s personal style and draw from our previous episodes to understand his style and aesthetic concerns. Links below. Luxe, Calme et Volupte, 1904...
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Sarah Stein's Notes on Matisse
This week, we discuss Sarah Stein’s notes on Matisse’s pedagogy from 1908. Sarah, sister-0in-law to Gertrude Stein, was a close friend of Matisse and a pupil in his academy. Her notes give us great insight into Matisse’s process and his approach to different mediums, sculpture, drawing, and...
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Henri Matisse's Notes of a Painter
This week we continue our series on Fauvism with Henri Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter” published in La Grande Revue on the 25th of December 1908. Matisse was one of the 20th century’s most influential artists and his work remains a towering testament to the power of levity and beauty. Join us as…
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Andre Derrain
This week we take a look at the life and times of Andre Derain, one of the leadings Fauves. We dive into his world with his letters to Vlaminck (1905-1909) as a guide and find them particularly moving. In this episode we touch on colour, light and shadow, and the very value of art. Struggling...
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Maurice de Vlaminck Mini Episode
This week we take a look at a selection of Maurice de Vlaminck’s work including a few of his remarks about the loose movement which would come to be known as Fauvism. Although a painter fiercely resistant towards the aesthetic authorities of the past, Vlaminck was influenced by contemporaries…
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The Dream Mini Episode
This week we take a look at Henri Rousseau's The Dream (1910), his relationship with Guillaume Apollinaire, and wether one can trust an artist's own explanation of their work. The Dream: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79277 Our intro music is by Aron Gyenge, whom we greatly thank. Follow…
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Fauvism Pt 1 RAW
For our first episode away from Futurism we look back at the Salon D'Automne of 1905, the exhibition that lead to the coining of the term Fauve, and Fauvism. But was this designation by critic Louis Vauxcelles correct? Was Fauvism ever a movement? Or just a loose taxonomy for limited critical…
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Futurist Stage Design
This week, our last with Futurism for a while, we take a look at Futurist Stage Design, written by Enrico Prampolini, one of the stranger prophesies the Futurists made of art to come: The staid walls of the naturalistic set were to be demolished, the theatrical unbound from mere mimesis and...
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Futurist Synthetic Theatre
This week, as our dive into Futurism slowly comes to an end, we take a look at Futurist Synthetic Theatre, F.T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, and, Bruno Corra's explosive foray into the theatrical arts. With characteristic verve they skewer the prevailing forms at the time and propose an…
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Variety Theatre
This week we dive into the theatrical arts by reading the Futurist Variety Theatre, the first manifesto where they lay out the foundations of their distinct form of theatre. The theatre is for the Futurists more than just another vehicle for provocation, it was rather another terrain where they...
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Futurist Literature Pt 2
This week we discuss "Destruction of Syntax – The Wireless Imagination – Words In Freedom" written by FT Marinetti in May 1913, and read at Galerie La Boetie in Paris on the 22nd of June of the same year. Also known as the "Radio Imagination", this manifesto follows up on A Response to Objections...
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Futurist Literature Pt 1
This week we take a break from music and look at Futurist Litterature. Specifically, the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Litterature by F.T. Marinetti. Published in 1912, the manifesto seeks to revolutionize litterature and poetry by encouraging writers to liberate their words entirely from the...
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The Art of Noises
We are back this week with The Art of Noises by Luigi Russolo anda guest appearence by musician Aron Gyenge. This manifesto, that was originally written as a letter to his friend and fellow Futurist Francesco Balilla Pratella in 1913, had a huge influence on the development of musical aesthetics…
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Exhibitors to the Public
In this episode we look at The Exhibitors to the Public written in 1911 by Umberto Boccioni. The English version we read is from the catalogue of The Exhibition of Works by the Italian Futurist Painters at the Sackville Gallery, London. The text presents new concepts like physical…
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Technical Manifesto Of Futurist Musicians
This week we have composer Aron Gyenge joining us to discuss the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Musicians. Published in 1911 by Francesco Balilla Pratella, the manifesto was an attempt to flesh out the radical intentions set forth in his previous Manifesto of Futurist Musicians. Pratella...
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The Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
This is the first of three episodes on Futurist music. This week we dive into the Manifesto of Futurist Musicians by Francesco Balilla Pratella, a successful composer in his time. Like most Futurist writings it is lively and scathing. Pratella reduces the singer to an instrument, elevates the...
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Electrical War Pt. 2: A Futurist Vision Hypothesis
This week we take a look at the second part of Electrical War, written by F.T. Marinetti. It was originally publishes in Le Futurisme (1911), but was re-released in 1915 in two parts: The Birth of a Futurist Aesthetic and A Futurist Vision Hypothesis (the section we are analysing today). In an...
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Electrical War: Part 1, The Birth of a Futurist Aesthetic
We return again to the key Futurist thinker, F.T.Marinetti; to consider his “Electrical War” First published in French, in 1911, in Le Futurisme, as a single piece. However, by 1915, when translating it, he divided it into two: the first part was renamed, “The Birth of a Futurist Aesthetic”, in...
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Futurism, War, and The Multiplied Man
Futurism, War, and The Multiplied Man by The Manifest Image
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Futurism, Women, And Parliamentarianism
This week, we continue looking into Futurism’s conception of women as well as start to explore Futurist politics, namely through the issue of women’s suffrage. We start with Futurism And Woman by Margaret Wynne Nevinson (1910), a Futurist critic, and continue with Contempt For Woman by F.T....
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Futurist Manifesto Of Lust
[Includes a mention of sexual violence]. This week we look at the Futurist Manifesto of Lust proclaimed by Valentine de Saint-Point in Paris’ Salle Gaveau on the eve of war in 1913. In it she will declare lust a force, the primal drive from which creative energies flow, and impel us to free it…
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Manifesto of The Futurist Woman
The futurist’s scorn for women is famously controversial. This week, to dig further into this facet of the movement, we look at Valentine de St Point’s response to F.T. Marinetti in her “The Manifesto Of The Futurist Woman.” St Point expands the Futurist provocation and leaves plenty of questions...
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Against Traditionalist Venice
Venice has always been a dramatic setting for artistic expression, for the Futurists however it represented the decadent stagnation they so despised. This week we look at the Futurist manifesto “Against Passeist Venice”–sometimes translated as “Against Traditionalist Venice”– a screed against all...
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(Bonus) Boccioni's States of Mind Triptych
While we get the Patreon up and running enjoy some free bonus content. This week we look at Umberto Boccioni’s splendid triptych States of Mind (The Farewells, Those Who Go, Those Who Stay), Thomas reads some Rimbaud, and Ariel makes some puerile jokes. (Boccioni) States Of Mind I: The Farewells...
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Technical Manifesto Of The Futurist Painters
So far we’ve seen the theory behind a futurist aesthetic, but this week we look at Boccioni et al. try and make specific sense of what that would entail in Futurist Painting: A Technical Manifesto. We will cover Divisionism, Pointillism and other aspects of Impressionism to understand what makes…
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Manifesto of The Futurist Painters
This week, we look at the Manifesto of The Futurist Painters, the group’s first attempt at translating Marinetti’s passionate prose into a visual medium. Legend has it that it was written by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Luigi Russolo in a café in Milan over the course of a single day, with...
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Let's Kill The Moonlight
How do you murder sentimentality, comfortable sensuality, and exhaustion?...How do you kill the moonlight? This week, we turn to F.T. Marinetti’s second manifesto, “Let’s Kill the Moonlight!”, (1909). Split into four sections, Marinetti begins with a defence of Futurism and a call to arms, before...
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The Futurist Manifesto
The Futurist Manifesto, composed by FT Marinetti and published in 1909, on the front page of Le Figaro, sparks not only the ignition of The Futurist Movement, but the entire avant-garde of the 20th Century. Subsequent movements – such as Vorticism, Dadaism, Surrealism etc. – would be heavily...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The 20th Century was the age of the Manifesto. No longer waiting to be retrospectively defined by critics and historians, writers like F.T.Marinetti, Tristan Tzara and Andre Breton took their identities, goals and methods into their own hands. They would decide what they are and how the world should be. Through manifestos, art and political movements would have a core set of documents that outlined their proposals, criticisms and practical solutions to problems they saw.Yet, too few of us today are aware of the profound changes these movements and manifestos had. That’s where we come in. We’ll be selecting manifestos from the 20th century: examining their form and rhetoric, the ideas within them, offering judgments, and tracing history, as well as engaging with the art, music and writing these manifestos would inspire. We aim to provide a copy of the core works that we look at in the description of each episode, so you can follow us.Hosted by Ariel de la Garza and Thomas Greengrass
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