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PrefaceIntroduction: The Art in ArtefactsPart I: Western Perspectives Chapter 1 - The Origins of ArtChapter 2 - Classical ArtChapter 3 - Oriental ArtChapter 4 - Primitive ArtChapter 5 - Prehistoric ArtPart II: Cross-cultural PerspectivesChapter 6 - FormChapter 7 - MeaningChapter 8 - PerformanceChapter 9 - ArchaeologyChapter 10 - The Work of ArtPart III: Artistic Globalisation Chapter 11 - The Art WorldChapter 12 - The Exotic PrimitiveChapter 13 - Marketing Exotic ArtChapter 14 - Artistic ColonialismChapter 15 - The Global and the LocalAfterwordReferencesIndex

"Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right". This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Negritude movement in Africa and Martinique to Brazil's Mud/Meat Sewer Manifesto, from Iraqi modernism to Australia's Cyberfeminist Manifesto, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world

Empires and Exhibitions -- Imperial Altercations -- Modernist Apprehensions

"Adair Rounthwaite presents a detailed account of the Group of Six Authors and their circle from 1975 to 1985 as they brought their artistic activities directly to an unwitting public, highlighting the friction between public and private that was the foundation of their innovative practices. Using artist interviews and extensive documentation, This Is Not My World provides a fresh consideration of this marginalized episode in global art history"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Challenges-Personal in Nature -- 1. Private Dreams and Collective Ideals -- 2. Why Altruism Is Considered Deviant Behavior: Obstacles on the Path to a Viable Utopia -- II. Challenges-Conceptual in Nature -- 3. Utopia Revisited: New Thinking on Social Betterment -- 4. Utopia-An Obsolete Concept -- 5. Utopianism Comes of Age -- 6. Utopia and the Attempted Flow of Useful Ideas: Why Being Able to Define and Measure a Clear Vision Matters -- III. Methods: Even Better Tools -- 7. Modest Steps toward an Ideal World: Sociological Practice and Utopia -- 8. Utopian Poetry: A Medium for the Message -- 9. Building Common Ground: Rethinking Rules of Engagement -- 10. The Utopian University of the People: A Story That Is Not Too Good to Be True -- IV. Methods: Information Technology -- 11. The Human Utopia and the Web -- 12. Toward a New Democracy -- 13. Internet Dreaming: Investigating Online Community at the Math Forum -- 14. Welcome to "the Collective": New Meaning to a Meeting of Minds -- V. Looking Inward -- 15. Understanding Opposing Viewpoints: Placing Yourself in the Shoes of the Other -- 16. The Conscious Use of the "Mirror Effect": Co-Creating a Utopian World -- 17. Surprised on the Run! -- VI. Looking Homeward -- 18. Utopias and City Planning: Finding Strength in One Another -- 19. Distributed Floating Cities: A Laboratory for Exploring Social Utopias -- 20. I Am a Utopian: Creating the "Resort Circle -- 21. Personal Utopia: Technology's Effect on the Meaning of Home -- VII. Schooling Possibilities -- 22. A Future Vision for Public Education -- 23. Blue Sky for Black America: Utopia and African America's Future -- 24. Inventing Utopian Delinquency Reforms: Being There in Ways That Work -- VIII. High-Schoolers on Utopia.