The future belongs to artists! A discourse analysis of the expressionist manifesto

Abstract

This work intends to encounter the textual corpus constituted by the Expressionist Manifesto of the Die Brücke group of artists. In the first place, with Marshall Berman, we must say that expressionism is a modern phenomenon, and, more specifically, a modernist one. It is in this last sense that we can see it as part of the artistic avant-gardes of the 20th century. In the second place, the expressionist movement shows certain specific features that distinguish it from the rest of the avant-gardes, and which we will display along the essay. Since our object of study is a text, certain intellectual history and discourse analysis tools become necessary, so we will be working with the ones provided by Michel Foucault and Jonathan Culler. Finally, since our object is also a manifesto, that is, a specific discursive genre, we will have to analyze it with the tools provided by Eliseo Verón.