The Idea of the Avant Garde: And What It Means Today, Volume 2

The Idea of the Avant Garde: And What It Means Today, Volume 2
ISBN-10
1789380901
ISBN-13
9781789380903
Category
Art
Pages
437
Language
English
Published
2019-10-15
Publisher
Intellect Books
Author
Marc James Léger

Description

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volume of The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today provided a lively forum on the kinds of radical art theory and partisan practices that are possible in today’s world of global art markets and creative industry entrepreneurialism. This second volume presents the work of another 50 artists and writers, exploring the diverse ways that avant-gardism develops reflexive and experimental combinations of aesthetic and political praxis. The manifest strategies, temporalities, and genealogies of avant-garde art and politics are expressed through an international, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary convocation of ideas that covers the fields of film, video, architecture, visual art, art activism, literature, poetry, theatre, performance, intermedia and music.

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