In this collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev prese
nts the contradictory and echoing spirits of such diverse movements as vorticism
, feminism, dogme, surrealism, communism and cannibalism, taking in along the wa
y cinema, architecture, fashion and cookery.To manifesto is to perform. The Futu
rists may be described as the original performance artists. In print, on stage,
showering leaflets from the top of the nearest tall building, their pronouncemen
ts performed their principles. -- from the editor's introduction, p. xxi
