Manifesto weaves 13 dramatic monologues from more than 50 artistic declarations, provoking timeless questions about the artist's role in society.
Earlier, in his autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, he had made an unforgettable declaration of artistic intent.
Ho-hum until it takes a turn toward the fascinatingly weird, the movie is a welcome declaration of artistic independence for Burton, who often strains against aesthetic and industrial restrictions.
The very form of this typescript is a declaration of artistic intent, a manifesto of sorts.
Mr. Fisher suggested that such minute computer-based attention to detail would make his artistic vision for the Declaration resonate.
It is a declaration of artistic intent that makes one eager to see what Mr. Bradley will do next.
Zemeckis's visual tribute to the towers is no mere funereal nostalgia, not just a cinematic version of "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," but a reflexive declaration of artistic kinship.
A second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), launched a satirical attack on the New Orleans literary scene, including identifiable individuals, and can perhaps best be read as a declaration of artistic independence.
Christopher Isherwood made his famous declaration of artistic intent in 1939: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking… Some day all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed".
More than anything else, this magisterial exhibition represents a political act, a declaration of artistic independence (and identity: I create, therefore I am), a line drawn in the desert sand; the opposite of which would be to do nothing: no art, no biennial.
Like most declarations of artistic freedom, it was commercial suicide.
