In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architecture, fashion, and cookery.
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Klee and Cobra
The realization that children have their own type of childish creativity and the potential to express themselves through art was a crucial driving force in Paul Klee’s own creative work: from pieces displaying the spontaneous texture of finger painting to his Dada-esque puppets made of found materials. Animated by Klee, after World War II painters from the group of artists known as CoBrA in turn lighted on the child’s visual world as a source of inspiration for their new, revolutionary artistic departure.

Beach Beneath the Street
The acclaimed, readable history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto
Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles.

Klee und Cobra
Die Entdeckung des bildnerischen Ausdruckspotentials von Kindern und der eigenen kindlichen Kreativität gab Paul Klee entscheidende Impulse für sein künstlerisches Schaffen – von Arbeiten mit der spontanen Haptik von Fingermalereien bis zu seinen dadaesken Handpuppen aus vorgefundenen Materialien. Inspiriert von Klee, entdeckten die Maler der Künstlergruppe CoBrA nach den Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihrerseits die Bildwelt des Kindes als Inspirationsquelle für ihren revolutionären künstlerischen Aufbruch.

Klee & Cobra
Catalog for the exhibition Klee & Cobra at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Danmark from 30 Sep 2011 to 8 Jan 2012.
On the cover: Blau mantel, Paul Klee, 1940.

La Nueva Babylonia
3 text by Constant translated from the French translations in Jean Clarence Lambert's book New Babylon: Art et Utopie edited by Gustavo Gili.
- Nueva Babilonia: una ciudad nómada (1974), p.6-49
- La intensificación del espacio (1974) [It is an extract from the final section of “New Babylon: A Nomadic Town”], p. 49-50
- Descripción de la zona amarilla (1960), p. 51-54
- Auto-diálogo a propósito de Nueva Babilonia (1971), p. 55-64

Intensely Dutch
Published to accompany the exhibition Intensely Dutch at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 5 June-23 August 2009

Cold War Modern
Catalogue with the travelling exhibition Cold War Modern | Design 1945-1970 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.


Constant, De late periode
The publication of this book accompanied the exhibition Constant in het atelier at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam in 2008-2009.