This website was created to shine light on the manifestoes of Modern poets and artists. The period before World War I witnessed a restructuring of artistic culture. No longer were artists stuck in the traditions of the past; with the help of pugnacious manifestoes, art received a breath of life. I sought to explore The Futurist Manifesto and BLAST the Vorticist Manifesto and The Surrealist Manifesto. Most of these movements focused on painting; however, as two Futurist Painters, Bruno Corradini and Emilio Settimelli, assert: “There is no reason why every activity must of necessity be confined to one or other of these ridiculous limitations which we call music, literature, painting, etc.” (Perloff 80). This is the torch that The Futurists and all of these manifestoed modernist groups bear. They broke down the traditions of the past and while ultimately working in the traditional mediums, these modernists groups worked to break down the past and to reinvent the now.