ManifestoesFor more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the defining forms of aesthetic modernism. Ranging from the pamphlet wars of seventeenth century England to dyke and ACT UP manifestoes of the 1990s, her extraordinarily accomplished book offers the first