100 Artists' Manifestos by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141932156
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

M43 Vicente Huidobro

We Must Create (1922)

First published in French in his collection Manifestes (1925).

VICENTE HUIDOBRO (1893–1948) was a cosmopolitan Chilean poet, exponent of the artistic movement of Creacionismo (Creationism), which held that artists of any stripe should ‘create’ rather than ‘imitate’, that is to say invent or ‘add to the facts of the world’, as he writes in the manifesto, and not simply describe it – an echo, perhaps, of the celebrated formulation in Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1888): ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’

Huidobro himself was not an artist – but he knew them, he consorted with them (he was a special friend of Juan Gris) and he collaborated with them. Like Breton, he was in his fashion a purveyor of the avant-garde to the avant-garde, and beyond. He founded and edited a peripatetic international journal Creación, later Création, à la Picabia (see M34). He was also a waspish commentator, specializing in the suitable dismissal. ‘I find that Surrealism is, in fact, nothing but the violin of psychoanalysis.’ As for Futurism, ‘a new art for the eleven thousand virgins, but not for those who know anything about anything.’

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