Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deluding optimism provoked artists all over Germany into a stated rejection of bourgeois culture. Die Brucke (The Bridge), a group of young artists united by their opposition to contemporary standards of taste and by their desire for a new emotional intensity in art, coalesced at Dresden in 1905. Their manifesto read...
Defensible Space was meant originally for a professional audience. Newman apparently came to see his work as a manifesto of radical, innovative principles. And the suggestions he makes are, considering much recent architecture, often both radical and innovative. (A typical suggestion is the segregation of age groups.) Unfortunately, the grand ambitions of Defensible Space result in potential excesses which tend to submerge reasonable arguments...
...awaits." But he obviously isn't too happy about what poets are writing, and neither is Richard Dey. In the issue Dey has five poems (the best an elegy for Pound that redeems Pound's memory very satisfyingly against the odds of his political faults) and a manifesto for poets. Titled "On the spot" to echo Pound's "Date Line" of the thirties, the manifesto begins like this...
...filled with writing, not graphics; almost all the poems and stories inside are more serious and more polished than the usual run of student literature. The soft-spots of the collection are mostly in various short poems; as it turns out, most of them help prove what Dey's manifesto says about journeymen-poets: that they get bogged down in simply mastering details of techniques, that they must be more than occasional poets to catch the eye of an audience, that they have to resist the temptation of formalizing trivial sensations and impressions, and that, somehow, they have to find...
...declarations, hoping to forestall debate. They feared that inflamed public opinion could force a change in the government's stance, thus alienating Catholic voters. By midweek, however, the newspapers were so full of the controversy that silence became impossible. Public Health Minister Jean Foyer spoke out, calling the manifesto "excessive" and charging the reformers with political maneuvering and provocation...