Reyburn, Duncan2020-07-312020-07-312019Reyburn, D. 2019, 'Repetitions repeatedly repeated: mimetic desire- ressentiment- and mimetic crisis in Julian Rosefeld's Manifesto (2015)', Image and Text, vol. 33, pp. 1-22.1020-1497 (online)10.17159/2617-3255/2018/n33a12http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75527This paper offers an exploration of Julian Rosefeld’s film Manifesto (2015), which is a fascinating amalgamation and interpretation of modernist, avant gardist manifestos. The paper employs the film itself as a hermeneutical framework, especially is use of the rhetorical-hermeneutical device of repetition, and also makes use of René Girard’s mimetic theory. Through this double-hermeneutic, two aims are set out: the first being to offer a way to rethink the meaning of the art manifesto as that modernist genre par excellence and the second being a way to rethink trends in artistic and creative production in general.en© 2019 University of Pretoria. Article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.Art manifestosRené GirardHermeneutic mimetic theoryCreative innovationRessentimentArticle