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This unique book features 100 manifestos written over the past 100 years by eminent figures ranging from architecture and poetry to fashion and cooking. Their ideals are represented by such art movements and political movements as futurism, dadaism, surrealism, feminism, communism, destructivism, vorticism, stridentism, cannibalism and stackism. The author-compiler of the collection, Professor Alex Danchev, accompanies each manifesto with historical information about the author and his era. Here are just a few of the names: Kandinsky, Mayakovsky, Rodchenko, Le Corbusier, Dali, Vertov, Murakami, Gilbert and George, Marinetti, Apollinaire, Breton, Trotsky, Guy Debord and Rem Koolhaas. Their manifestos sometimes carry wisdom, sometimes unexpected revelations, and sometimes shockingness; some may seem strange and even provocative - the reader has a rich and fascinating choice.