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The Theory of the Avant-Garde

by Renato Poggioli

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Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the avant-garde is both symptom and cause of many major extra-aesthetic trends of our time, and that the contemporary avant-garde is the sole and authentic one.

Table of Contents

THE CONCEPT OF THE AVANT-GARDE
Prologue
Terminological ups-and-downs
The two avant-gardes
A novel concept, a novel fact

THE CONCEPT OF A MOVEMENT
Schools and movements
The dialectic of movements
Activism
Antagonism

ROMANTICISM AND THE AVANT-GARDE
Popularity and unpopularity
Romanticism as a precedent
Down-with-the-past
Anticipations

AGONISM AND FUTURISM
Nihilism
Agonism
Futurism
Decadence

FASHION, TASTE, AND THE PUBLIC
Fashion, avant-garde, and stereotype
Intelligentsia and elite
The intellectual elite
The avant-garde and politics

THE STATE OF ALIENATION
Art and society
Psychological and social alienation
Econoimic and cultural alienation
Stylistic and aesthetic alienation

TECHNOLOGY AND THE AVANT-GARDE
Experimentalism
Scientificism
Humorism
Nominalistic proof

AVANT-GARDE CRITICISM
Prerequisites
The problem of obscurity
Judgment and prejudgment
Criticism, right and left

AESTHETICS AND POETICS
Dehumanization
Cerebralism and voluntarism
Metaphysics of the metaphor
The mystique of purity

HISTORY AND THEORY Historical parallels
Modernity and modernism
The overcoming of the avant-garde
Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780674882164
Author:
Poggioli, Renato
Publisher:
Belknap Press
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
History, modern
Subject:
Arts
Subject:
Art, modern
Subject:
Art criticism
Subject:
General Literary Criticism & Collections
Subject:
History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Subject:
Literary Criticism : General
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Print
Publication Date:
February 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
none
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8 x 6 in .65 lb

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