A new video by The Guardian in honor of the book 100 Artists' Manifestos, From the Futurists to the Stuckists prompts me to offer this sunny Tuesday morning quiz: Name that "ism." (Answers on the jump.)
Clarification: Each numbered sentence represents a different movement (ie futurism, surrealism, etc.) Go!
1. In the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern…
2. To cause a discharge from, purge the world of bourgeois sickness, intellectual, professional, and commercialized culture. Promote a revolutionary flood and tide in art. Promote living art, anti-art, promote non-art reality to be fully grasped by all people.
3. Up to now, literature has extolled a contemplative stillness, rapture, and reverie. We intend to glorify aggressive action, arrestive wakefulness, life at the double, the slap, and the punching fist.
4. We didn’t create technology. We didn’t create man. But we, artists yesterdays, constructors today, we processed the human being.
5. Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists.
6. It is terribly simple. In French it means hobby horse. In German it means goodbye, get off my back, be seeing you sometime. In Romanian, it means yes, indeed.
1. Surrealism
2. Fluxus
3. Futurism
4. Constructivism
5. Stuckism
6. Dada
