The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism became the foundational document of a new artistic

movement—Futurism—which called for a rejection of the past and a celebration of modern

innovation and aggressive action. This manifesto is a call for “war” on the old, but this call is
made by claiming that war is the world’s best hygiene. It is also a call for speed and
change and the rejection of all forms of traditions. Marinetti claims that ”Art can be
nothing but violence, cruelty and injustience”. Marinetti, encourages dangerous thrill-seeking
and great struggle to achieve beauty saying that without struggle there is no beauty. Marinetti
condemned all academies and museums that studied old works comparing them to cemeteries
that aren’t worth focusing on, also condemning old moralities in favor of logic as well as
feminism. The Futurist Manifesto was very much anarchistic.

A central intent of the Fluxes, as set out in the Manifesto of 1963, was to “PURGE the world of
bourgeois sickness ‘intellectual’ professional and culitmated culure..”(p222). They wanted to
dismiss and mock the elitist world of "high art" and to find any way possible to bring art to the
masses, much in keeping with the social climate of the 1960s. The Fluxus wanted to establish
artist's nonprofessional status in society. They believed however, that an artist must
demonstrate artist's dispensability and inclusiveness, the self-sufficiency of the
audience, and he must demonstrate that anything can be art and anyone can do it.
They wanted to “PURGE the world of dead art…abstract art, [and] illusionistic art..”. What
would be left after this purging would presumably be “concrete art,” which Maciunas equated
with the real, or the ready-made(p222)

The several Dada Manifesto by Tristan Tzara, is not a reasoned argument on the tenets of Dada.
It is a manifesto only as far as the root of the word 'manifest' means 'to show.' It is a call for a
new artistic movement that rejects convention and embraces absurdity. Tzara employs many
paradoxes to make a case for DADA, “DADA is our intensity..”. Tzara advocates active
simplicity as an “antidote” to the complexity of the modern world. The work shows what Dada is
and defines it. Dada separates the artist from the audience, insisting meaning is individual and
subjective, and art is what one says it is.(P204)