Art

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Negritude 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, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world.

Linda Nochlin's seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been no 'great women artists' on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she dismantled the very concept of 'greatness', unravelling the basic assumptions that had centred a male-coded 'genius' in the study of art. With unparalleled insight and startling wit, Nochlin laid bare the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art historical thought as not merely a moral failure, but an intellectual one. Freedom, as she sees it, requires women to risk entirely demolishing the art world's institutions, and rebuilding them anew - in other words, to leap into the unknown. In this stand-alone anniversary edition, Nochlin's essay is published alongside its reappraisal, 'Thirty Years After'. Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as well as queer theory, race and postcolonial studies, 'Thirty Years After' is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new canon. With reference to Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and many more, Nochlin diagnoses the state of women and art with unmatched precision and verve. 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' has become a slogan and rallying cry that resonates across culture and society; Dior even adopted it in their 2018 collections. In the 2020s, at a time when 'certain patriarchal values are making a comeback', Nochlin's message could not be more urgent: as she herself put it in 2015, 'there is still a long way to go'. With 14 illustrations

Ζωγραφική και ποίηση νοσταλγούν το µέλλον µέσα από µια ταραγµένη νηφαλιότητα, µέσα από µια τρυφερή σχέση ιδιοκτησίας µε τη ζωή, «ληστεύοντας ιδέες» η µία από την άλλη. Σε αυτή την κοινή ουτοπία της πραγµατικότητας, ο ζωγράφος και ο ποιητής, κλεισµένοι αλλά όχι αποκλεισµένοι στους τέσσερις τοίχους, στους τέσσερις στίχους, στα τέσσερα χρώµατα της παλέτας, συνεχίζουν να στέλνουν µπουκάλια απελπισµένης ελπίδας στο πέλαγος έξω, εκεί που «παφλάζουνε τα χρώµατα της µέρας, εκεί που χρώµατα και ποιήµατα ζητούν το τελικό τους καταφύγιο». Γ. Ψ.