Ok, for those that aren't 100% sure what a manifesto is, it's a published verbal declaration of motives, intentions, or views of the issuer, whether it's an individual, group, political party, or government. We were supposed to read two different ones, David Shield's Reality Hunger and The Futurist Manifesto. Even though both are manifestos, they can be very different.
David Shield's Reality Hunger is an artistic manifesto discussing the reality and originality of art in everyday life and the emergence of new forms of art. Regarding this topic. The author believes artistic movements are the artist's personal way to influence art. Art is merely a representation of the perspective the artist has of life. Shields criticizes the genres of literature and art because they have not showed changed through time, but new genres emerged. These are more realistic in terms of the relationship between art and real life. If the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti met Shields they would have agreed on thinking the way art changed was beneficial. Marinetti supports the present in term of art and Shields supports the way art changed into a more realistic and crude movement.
Based on these documents, a manifesto is the author's ideas about a topic, in this case Shields and Marinetti's feelings about the evolution of art.
