The Manifest Image

The Manifest Image

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The Manifest Image episodes

  • 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 launching into a narrative, where the Mad, armed with cars and planes, wage war on Paralysis, Gout, and The Moon.
    We’ll also take a look at another manifesto, Marinetti’s, “We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters, The Past Lovers Of The Moon”, (from “Le Futurisme”, 1911) to better understand the Futurists’ break with the past, their ideal, Hybrid Human, and their disgust for the moon.
    1 hr 8 min
  • 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 indebted to this manifesto. Either, supporting the Futurists, or using them as a foil, to put forward their own agendas. Importantly, though, each movement would adopt Marinetti’s manifesto-ing and see this Manifesto as the standard to meet or beat.
    Welcome to the first episode of The Manifest Image.
    https://archive.org/details/FuturistManifesto
    1 hr 39 min

About The Manifest Image

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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.