Move or Be Moved

I’ve been up all night for weeks.  Now it is time to “lift up your heads!” as Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto proclaims.  I have read books and articles and poems and ogled at art, and now I present to you my website of manifesto research: The Manifesto Marketplace.  Please do enjoy the details of The Futurists, The Vorticists, and The Surrealists.  The genre of the manifesto has not received the attention which I believe many modernist artists and poets devoted to it.  Art movements of the modernist era were defined by manifestoes and these documents allowed for art to be in the eye of the public.  Without bold art movements and belligerent declarations of the state of art, art is distanced from the general population.  There must be a renewal in energy, artists must drive fast cars and through manifestoes, make the general public realize that art is necessary to understand the world we live in.  We must either move or be moved; we must be a movement.