Our third reading assignment is three short manifestos written by avant-garde artists in the early decades of the 20th century. They are as follows:
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism (1909):Marinetti_Manifesto_Futurista
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Aleksei Gan, Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group (c. 1922): RodchenkoStepanovaGan_WhoWeAre
El Lissitzky, Our Book (1926): Lissitsky_OurBook
Here are some questions to consider as you read:
The first decades of the 20th century brought a wave of new technologies and inspired a generation of artistic movements. What new possibilities did the authors of these manifestos find at the start of the new century? In what ways did these artists anticipate the art and design that would follow? Where might the ideas of these authors intersect? And where might they diverge?
