When I was studying for my Art History degree with the Open University I wrote an assignment concerning the development of the artist’s manifesto during the 19th and 20th century and how this was linked to a more individualistic approach to the arts rather than working from the ideals of the French, Italian or British schools of art.
Rather than develop this at this point in time I will just collect as many manifesto as I’ve found on these pages.
This list is a place marker of manifesto still to transcribe, I have already transcribed a few at another site (artmanifestos.tumblr.com) and will just transfer those to here, eventually closing the Tumblr down.
- Gustav Courbet ‘Realist Manifesto’ (1855)
- F.T. Marinetti ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’ (1909)
- Takamura Kōtarō ‘A Green Sun’ (1910)
- F.T. Marinetti ‘Against Traditionalist Venice’ (1910)
- Guillaume Apollinaire ‘On the Subject in Modern Painting’ (1912)
- Valentine de Saint-Point ‘Manifesto of Futurist Manifesto’ (1912)
- Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc ‘Preface to Der Blaue Reiter Almanac’ (1912)
- Luigi Russolo ‘The Art of Noises’ (1913)
- Mikhael Larionov and Natalya Goncharova ‘Rayonists and Futurists: A Manifesto’ (1913)
- Guillaume Apollinaire ‘L’antitradition futuriste’ (1913)
- Carlo Carrà ‘The Painting of Sounds , Noises and Smells’ (1913)
- Giacomo Balla ‘Futurist Manifesto of Men’s Clothing’ (1913)
- Mina Loy ‘Aphorisms on Futurism’ (1914)
- F.T. Marinetti and C.R.W. Nevinson ‘The Futurist Manifesto Against English Art’ (1914)
- Wyndham Lewis and others ‘Our Vortex’ (1914)
- Wyndham Lewis and others ‘Manifesto’ (1914)
- Antonio Sant’ Elia ‘Manifesto of Futurist Architecture’ (1914)
- F.T. Marinetti and others ‘Futurist Synthesis of the War’ (1914)
- Mina Loy ‘Feminist Manifesto’ (1914)
- Carlo Carrà ‘Warpainting’ (1915)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky ‘A Drop of Tar’ (1915)
- Tristan Tzara ‘The 1st DADA Manifesto‘ (1916)
- Kasimir Malevich ‘Suprematist Manifesto’ (1916)
- Olga Rozanova ‘Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism’ (1917)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky and others ‘Manifesto of the Flying Federation of Futurists’ (1918)
- Richard Huelsenbeck ‘First German Dada Manifesto’ (1918)
- Amédéé Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret ‘Purism’ (1918)
- Aleksandr Rodchenko and others ‘Manifesto of Suprematists and Non-Objective Painters’ (1919)
- Richard Huelsenbeck and Raul Hausmann ‘What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?’ (1919)
- Walter Gropius ‘What is Architecture?’ (1919)
- Walter Gropius ‘Bauhaus Manifesto’ (1919)
- Tristan Tzara and others ‘Twenty-Three Manifestos of the Dada Movement’ (1920)
- Naum Gabo and Anton Pezner ‘The Realist Manifesto’ (1920)
- Liubov Popova ‘ On Organizing Anew’ (1921)
- Tristan Tzara and others ‘ Dada Excites Everything’ (1921)
- Manuel Maples Arce ‘A Strident Prescription’ (1921)
- Dziga Vertor ‘WE: Variant of a Manifesto’ (1922)
- Vincente Huidabro ‘We Must Create’ (1922)
- Aleksandr Rodchenko ‘Manifesto of the Constructivist Group’ (1922)
- Le Corbusier ‘Toward an Architecture’ (1923)
- Theo van Doesburg and others ‘Manifesto Prole Art’ (1923)
- Tomoshoi Murayama and others ‘Mavo Manifesto’ (1923)
- David Alfaro Siqueiros and others ‘ Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters and Sculptors’ (1923)
- The Red Group ‘Manifesto’ (1924)
- André Breton ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924)
- José Carlos Mariátegui ‘Art, Revolution and Decadence’ (1926)
- Oswaldo de Andrade ‘Cannibalist Manifesto’ (1928)
- Salvador Dalí and others ‘Yellow Manifesto’ (1928)
- André Breton ‘Second Manifesto fo Surrealism’ (1929)
- F.T. Marinetti and others ‘Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine’ (1930)
- John Reed Club of New York ‘Draft Manifesto’ (1932)
- Karoly (Charles) Sirato and others ‘Dimensionist Manifesto’ (1932)
- Mario Sironi ‘Manifesto of Mural Painting’ (1933)
- André Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky ‘Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art’ (1938)
- Lucio Fonana ‘White Manifesto’ (1946)
- Edward Bayley and others ‘Inventionist Manifesto’ (1946)
- Victor Vasarely ‘Notes from a Manifesto’ (1955)
- Jirō Yoshihara ‘The Gutai Manifesto’ (1956)
- Ferrára Guillar ‘Neo-Concrete Manifesto’ (1956)
- Pierre Restany ‘1st Statement on New Realism‘ (1960)
- Claes Oldenburg ‘I am for an art…‘ (1961)
- Georg Baselitz ‘Pandemonic Manifesto I 2nd Version’ (1961)
- Rafael Montanez Ortiz ‘Destructivism: A Manifesto’ (1962)
- George Maciunus ‘Fluxus Manifesto’ (1963)
- Wolf Vostell ‘Manifesto’ (1963)
- Stan Brakhage ‘Metaphors on Vision’ (1963)
- Stanley Brown ‘A Short Manifesto’ (1964)
- Derek Jarman ‘Manifesto’ (1964)
- Robert Venturi ‘Non-Straightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto’ (1966)
- Gilbert and George ‘The Laws of Sculpture’ (1969)
- Mierle Laderman Ekeles ‘Maintenance Art Manifesto’ (1969)
- Gilbert and George ‘What Our Art Means’ (1970)
- Douglas Davis ‘Manifesto’ (1974)
- Maroin Dib and others ‘Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement’ (1975)
- Rem Koolhaas ‘Delerious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhatten’ (1978)
- Coop Himmelblau ‘Architecture Must Blaze’ (1980)
- Georg Basielitz ‘Painter’s Equipment’ (1985)
- R.B. Kitaj ‘First Diasporist Manifesto’ (1989)
- Dale Nason ‘Cyber Dada Manifesto’ (1991)
- Lebbeus Woods ‘Manifesto’ (1993)
- Dogme 95 ‘Manifesto’ (1995)
- Michael Betancourt ‘The —- Manifesto’ (1996)
- Charles Jencks ’13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture’ (1996)
- R.B. Kitaj ‘Second Diasporist Manifesto’ (2007)
- Austin Williams and others ‘Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in Architecture’ (2008)
- Edgeworth Johnson, Shelley Li and others ‘The Founding Manifesto and Rules of the Other Muswell Hill Stuckists’ (2009)
