Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children)
86. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake (Girl, 10, Salford)
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85. Manifesto for the Natural Death of the Work of Art by Frieder Rusmann (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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84. Manifesto of Equals by Sylvain Maréchal (Girl, 9, Brent)
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83. Polypoetry Manifesto by Enzo Minarelli (Boy, 9, West Midlands)
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82. Prairie Fire Manifesto [excerpt] by the Weather Underground (Girl, 9, Brent)
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81. Realist Manifesto by Gustave Courbet (Boy, 10, West Midlands)
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80. AfriCobra Manifesto by Jeff R. Donaldson (Girl, 9, Brent)
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79. Radical Artists’ Manifesto by Arp, Baumann, Eggeling, Giacometti, Helbig, Hennings, Janco, Morach, Richter
(Boy, 9, West Midlands)
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78. #Accelerate Manifesto: For an Accelerationist Politics [excerpt] by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek (Girl, 9, Brent)
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77. Feminist Manifesto by Mina Loy (Girl, 9, Brent)
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76. Free International University Manifesto by Joseph Beuys and Heinrich Böll (Girl, 10, Salford)
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75. The Living Theatre Declaration (Boy, 9, West Midlands)
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74. Vigilanti Curi: On Motion Pictures by Pope Pius XI (Girl, 9, Brent)
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73. V. Vale’s New Year’s Resolutions 2011 (Girl, 9, Brent)
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72. Manifesto in a Clear Language by Antonin Artaud (Girl, 10, Salford)
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71. The Use of Free Time by The Situationist International (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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70. On the Art of the Cinema by Kim Jong-il (Girl, 10, Salford)
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69. Bust by IT (Boy, 10, North London)
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68. Aruša Theatre Manifesto (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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67. Manifesto 190199 by Samantha du Raeno / babel (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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66. Where BIT’s At by BIT Information Servive (Boy, 9, North London)
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65. Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Girl, 10, Salford)
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64. No More Nations by B.A.M.N. (By Any Means Necessary) (Boy, 11, South Yorkshire)
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63. Singles Manifesto by Marie Edwards (Girl, 9, Cambridgeshire)
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62. Manifesto by Willem van Spronsen (Boy, 10, North London)
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61. Arson News: The Day of the Triffids by Anonymous (Boy, 9, North London)
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60. Manifesto Prole Art by Theo Van Doesburg (Girl, 10, West Yorkshire)
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59. Black Manifesto by the National Black Economic Development Conference (Girl, 8, East London)
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58. Dark Mountain Manifesto by Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth (Girl, 10, West Yorkshire)
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57. Situationist Manifesto by Guy Debord (Boy, 11, South Yorkshire)
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56. Indictment Speech by Jerry Rubin (Boy, 9, North London)
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55. A Slap in the Face of Public Taste by David Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Vladmir Mayakovsky, Victor Khlebnikov (Boy, 11, South Yorkshire)
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54. Ecosex Manifesto (2.0) by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens (Boy, 9, North London)
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53. Women in the Year 2000 by Carolee Schneemann (Girl, 9, Cambridgeshire)
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52. Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski (Boy, 10, North London)
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51. The Book of Revelation [excerpt] by St. John (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
(full two-hour recording to premiere on Resonance FM on Christmas day at 2pm GMT;
recording also subject to a limited release by purge.xxx)
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50. The Theatre and the Plague by Antonin Artaud (Boy, 11, South Yorkshire)
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49. Manifesto of the Paris Commune’s Federation of Artists (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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48. Dialectics of Liberation by The Institute for Phenomenlogical Studies, London (Boy, 9, West Midlands)
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47. The Turner Prize by The Stuckists (Girl, 10, Salford)
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46. Maxims and Arrows by Friedrich Nietzsche (Girl, 10, West Yorkshire)
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45. A Familiar Preface by Joseph Conrad (Girl, 10, West Yorkshire)
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44. We Hold the Rock by Indians of All Tribes (Girl, 8, East London)
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43. Truisms by Jenny Holzer (Girl, 9, Cambridgeshire)
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42. Manifesto of Lettrist Poetry by Isidore Isou (Girl, 10, Salford)
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41. Four Changes by Gary Snyder (Girl, 9, Cambridgeshire)
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40. Jollywood Manifesto by Ciné Institute, Haiti (Girl, 9, Brent)
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39. Statement of Principles by Maya Deren (Girl, 9, Brent)
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38. Metaphors on Vision by Stan Brakhage (Girl, 8, East London)
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37. Prolegomena for All Future Cinema by Guy Debord (Girl, 9, Brent)
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36. Anti-100 Years of Cinema Manifesto by Jonas Mekas (Girl, 8, East London)
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35. Statement by Kenneth Anger (Girl, 9, Brent)
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34. Barefoot Filmmaking Manifesto by Sally Potter (Girl, 10, Salford)
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33. The Vow of Chastity by Lars von Trier & Thomas Vinterberg (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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32. Manifesto for Coexistence in Film and Life by Andrea Luka Zimmerman (Girl, 8, East London)
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31. Digital Dekalogo by Khavn (Boy, 9, North London)
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30. Minnesota Declaration by Werner Herzog (Girl, 11, West Yorkshire)
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29. Against Lists by Elena Gorfinkel (Girl, 9, Cambridgeshire)
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28. The Combahee River Collective Statement (Girl, 8, East London)
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27. Communiques 7 + 8 by The Angry Brigade (Girl, 9, North London)
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26. Manifesto by Agnes Denes (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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25. WITCH Manifesto by Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (Boy, 9, North London)
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24. Revolution in Dreams by (By) Any Means Necessary (Boy, 10, North London)
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23. #AltWoke Manifesto by ANON (Boy, 10, North London)
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22. Museum of Loneliness by Chris Petit (Girl, 6, Kent)
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21. Dada Manifesto by Francis Picabia (Girl, 6, Kent)
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20. Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball (Girl, 11, West Yorkshire)
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19. A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England by Gerrard Winstanley (Boy, 11, South Yorkshire)
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18. Manifesto (Architecture & War) by Lebbeus Woods (Girl, 10, Salford)
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17. 100 Impossible Artworks by Dora García (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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16. BLAST [excerpt] by Wyndham Lewis (Boy, 9, North London)
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15. Wear Sunscreen by Mary Schmich (Girl, 6, Kent)
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14. Skull Trepanation by Hugo Bart Huges (Boy, 10, North London)
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13. Pandrogeny Manifesto by Breyer P-Orridge (Girl, 11, West Yorkshire)
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12. Auto-Destructive Art by Gustav Metzger (Girl, 9, Cambridgeshire)
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11. Anarchy & The Sex Question by Emma Goldman (Girl, 10, Salford)
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10. Cinema Manifesto by Stavros Tornes (Boy, 11, South Yorkshire)
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9. The Theatre of Cruelty (First Manifesto) by Antonin Artaud (Boy, 11, South Yorkshire)
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8. Ten-Point Program (Black Panther Party Platform) by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale (Girl, 8, East London)
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7. SCUM Manifesto [excerpt] by Valerie Solanas (Boy, 9, North London)
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6. Abolish Restaurants [excerpt] by Prole (Boy, 10, North London)
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5. Women’s Art: A Manifesto by Valie Export (Girl, 9, Cambridgeshire)
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4. The Cosmic Redistribution Service by The Cosmic Redistribution Service [under the auspices of The Mayor's Committee for Civic Renaissance, The Free City Planning Council and with the co-operation of Grandma Shulman's Food Distribution Kibbutzim] (Girl, 9, Shropshire)
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3. Ban The Bomb (Brussels Provocation No. 1) by Provo / The Provo Liquidation Committee (Boy, 9, West Midlands)
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2. Sojourner Truth’s speech delivered to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851 (Girl, 6, Kent)
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1. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (Boy, 8, South East London)
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