Alex Danchev

A new anthology of 100 years of artists', filmmakers', and architects' manifestos. 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. Artists' manifestos are...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The first significant biography of the artist' - Michael Prodger, The Times'Best art books of 2021''Exemplary ... a scintillating read' - Alastair Sooke, Daily Telegraph'For those who love Magritte and those who do not, Danchev's biography will come as a revelation' -Literary ReviewRene Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become...

René Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking subversions all came from a middle-class Belgian gent, who kept a modest house in a Brussels suburb and whose first one-man show sold absolutely nothing. Through a deep examination of Magritte's friendships and his artistic development, Alex Danchev explores the...