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3. 1960s experimental art texts rejecting art-world seriousness by emphasizing play, instruction, performance, and everyday actions over objects.
4. 1848 political and philosophical text by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels analyzing class struggle and calling for collective ownership and the overthrow of capitalism.
5. Contemporary art movement using satire and deliberate provocation to critique sincerity, pretension, and institutional authority within the art world.
7. Early 20th-century avant-garde writings rejecting logic, nationalism, and traditional art in response to World War I, embracing absurdity and anti-art gestures.
8. Early abstract art text by Kazimir Malevich asserting that pure geometric form and color could express spiritual reality beyond the material world.
9. 1919 modernist declaration by Walter Gropius uniting art, craft, and architecture in order to reshape everyday life through functional design.

1. Mid-20th-century radical writings critiquing consumer capitalism and the “spectacle,” advocating lived experience, play, and revolutionary everyday life.
2. Late 20th-century writings challenging patriarchal art history by centering gender, labor, care, and embodied experience as valid artistic content.
3. 1909 avant-garde text by F.T. Marinetti celebrating speed, machines, violence, and modern life while calling for a total break from tradition and the past.
4. 1985 feminist theory essay by Donna Haraway arguing that technology dissolves fixed boundaries between human, machine, gender, and identity.
6. 1924 text by André Breton promoting dreams, the unconscious, and automatism as revolutionary tools for transforming art and society.