WHY ARE WE 'ARTISTS'?

This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, po st-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Africa and Martinique to Brazil's Mud/Meat Sewer Manifesto, from Iraqi modernism to Australia's Cyberfeminist Manifesto, they are by turns personal, poli tical, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary.