Inside the MFAH Posts by Kerry Bourbié
Kerry Bourbié is a library assistant at the Hirsch Library. In 2014, she completed her PhD in 17th-century Dutch painting at the University of Oxford.
How to Make an Artist’s Manifesto: Recipe for Revolution December 2, 2015
The exhibition “Violence and Precision”: Artists’ Manifestoes, on view at the Hirsch Library, features a selection of artists’ manifestoes from the early 20th century to the present. What is an artist’s manifesto, anyway? Crafted to persuade and convert readers, manifestoes are public declarations describing a person or group’s policies, goals, and opinions. In 1918, avant-garde writer Tristan …
