MANIFESTI on an ISM
Student Group Manifesti and Design Sketches
The Russian Avant-garde is renowned for its contribution to the intellectual history of Modernist art and literature. In many ways, the various, rapidly changing and proliferating ideas, pronounced in tumultuous lectures and demonstrations, and recorded in artistic manifesti, have outshone the artifacts they purportedly explained. A balanced account of the period would more likely place manifesti alongside other cultural products, as just another genre of creative and intellectual expression, rather than above, or prior to.To ground their creative work in intentional and spontaneous ideas, students in CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 and ARTS 227 formed artistic groups based upon commonly-espoused values and principles. They named their collectives and articulated their thoughts in jointly-authored manifesti.
- "Manifesto on Manifestism," by The Manifesters (Kelly and A.B.): Manifesto; Design Sketch; Book Page
- "Releasism," by Mafakiktranalanamana (Evan and Nicholas): Manifesto; Design Sketch
- "The Manifesto of Ismism," by The Society of Ideologians and Outtellectuals (Zoe, Stephen, Ian, & Saige): Manifesto; Design Sketch
- "Imprecisionist Manifesto" by the Impercisionists (Tim and Taylor): Manifesto; Design Sketch
- "The apocalyptic apostrophe apostasy," by Silent Poets of the Denotation Detonation​ (Dexter and Josh) Manifesto; Design Sketch
