Futurist Manifesto

We're discussing Marx and the Communist Manifesto in class this week. In what sense was the Communist Manifesto an artwork, a literary rather than simply political, theoretical or philosophical text? In what sense has it been an influence and a model for the explosion of artistic manifestos of the twentieth century?

The most famous, most seminal of the avant-garde art manifestos was the Futurists' Manifesto, published in the french newspaper Le Figaro, 5 Feb 1909.

Futurist Manifesto, marked in yellow, on the front page of Le Figaro, 5 Feb 1909.

The full text of the manifesto is here:
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html

For more artists' Manifestos, see Alex Danchev's book 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists (London: Penguin, 2011).