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Jonathan P. Eburne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Radical Avant-Garde and the Contemporary Avant-Garde
New Literary History, 2010Co-Authors: Philippe Sers, Jonathan P. EburneAbstract:This essay invokes the ontological ethos of the Avant-Garde work as a particular way of disclosing meaning. The Avant-Garde, according to Philippe Sers, signals not the ruin of representation but its redefinition; not the debunking of truth but a new relationship to truth. Here Sers manifests his impatience with current accounts of the Avant-Garde that remain fixated on its nihilism, formal novelty, and value-leveling dimensions. The contemporary infatuation with transgression epitomizes a false transcendence that only plays into the logic of contemporary capitalism. Highlighting the strains of iconophobia that pervades language-based aesthetic theories, the essay calls for a new reassessment of the cognitive and transformative power of images. The status of the original Avant-Garde work as even lies not in its negativity but its utopianism, its harboring of a moment of transcendence that is profoundly ethical in its implications.
Daniel Purdy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde: An Attempt to Answer Certain Critics of Theory of the Avant-Garde
New Literary History, 2010Co-Authors: Peter Bürger, Bettina Brandt, Daniel PurdyAbstract:Peter Burger reflects on the reception of his Theory of the Avant-Garde and crafts a spirited response to his critics, while expanding on and refining his original claims. For Burger, what continues to distinguish the Avant-Garde are two interrelated principles: the attack on the institution of art and the revolutionary transformation of everyday life. Underscoring the explicitly theoretical, rather than merely historical, thrust of this definition, he defends this generalizing strategy as a necessary means of achieving clarity about the changing role of art in society. He reiterates his argument about the failure of the historical Avant-Garde (to overcome the distinction of art and life), while placing a new emphasis on its equal measure of success (in transforming the internal logic of the art institution). The Avant-Garde’s appropriation of outdated and popular materials, for example, played a key role in challenging the norms of the art world, helping to bring about the leveling of distinctions often associated with postmodernism. On the one hand, the Avant-Garde failed in its attempt to revolutionize social reality; on the other hand, its impact on the norms and values of the art institution was significant and far-reaching. Contemporary or neo-Avant-Gardes remain caught on the horns of this contradiction, insofar as their aesthetic experiments—whatever the explicit intentions of the artist—only shore up the walls of the institution rather than breaking them down.
Aleš Erjavec - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements - Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements
2015Co-Authors: Aleš ErjavecAbstract:This collection examines key aesthetic Avant-Garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic Avant-Gardes —whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means—from the artistic Avant-Gardes, which focus on transforming representation. Following the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller and Jacques Ranciere, the contributors argue that the aesthetic is inherently political and that aesthetic Avant-Garde art is essential for political revolution. In addition to analyzing Russian constructivsm, surrealism, and Situationist International, the contributors examine Italian futurism's model of integrating art with politics and life, the murals of revolutionary Mexico and Nicaragua, 1960s American art, and the Slovenian art collective NSK's construction of a fictional political state in the 1990s. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements traces the common foundations and goals shared by these disparate arts communities and shows how their art worked towards effecting political and social change. Contributors. John E. Bowlt, Sascha Bru, David Craven, Ales Erjavec, Tyrus Miller, Raymond Spiteri, Misko Suvakovic
Benedikt Hjartarson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Utopia: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life - Utopia : the Avant-Garde, modernism and (im)possible life
2015Co-Authors: David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri VeivoAbstract:Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the Avant-Garde. Readings of the Avant-Garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the Avant-Garde from the late 19th to the 21st century.
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Decentring the Avant-Garde
2014Co-Authors: Per Bäckström, Benedikt HjartarsonAbstract:Per Backstrom / Benedikt Hjartarson: Rethinking the Topography of the International Avant-Garde. Introduction Rethinking the Dichotomy of Centre-Periphery Partha Mitter: Modern Global Art and Its Discontents Eva Forgacs: Romantic Peripheries. The Dynamics of Enlightenment and Romanticism in East-Central Europe Daina Teters: Peculiarities in the Use of the Concepts Centre and Periphery in Avant-Garde Strategies Laura Winkiel: Postcolonial Avant-Gardes and the World System of Modernity / Coloniality Piotr Piotrowski: Avant-Garde Art in Post-Communist Central Europe Impact of the Periphery on the Centre Malte Hagener: Mushrooms, Ant Paths and Tactics. The Topography of the European Film Avant-Garde Thomas Hunkeler: Claiming Dada for the French Vojtech Lahoda: Migration of Images. Private Collections of Modernism and Avant-Garde and the Search for Cubism in Eastern Europe Thomas Hackner: Worlds Apart? The Japan-Europe Historical Avant-Garde Relationship Central Role(s) of the Periphery Lisa Otty: "An Eccentric Homespun Avant-Gardist". Hugh MacDiarmid, 'Northern' Radicalism, and the Scottish Renaissance Movement Hanna Horsberg Hansen: Sami Artist Group 1978-1983. Otherness or Avant-Garde? Benedikt Hjartarson: Anationalism and the Search for a Universal Language. Esperantism and the European Avant-Garde Konstantin Dudakov-Kashuro: Revising the Aporias of the Avant-Garde Contributors Index
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The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange - The aesthetics of matter : modernism, the Avant-Garde and material exchange
2013Co-Authors: Sarah Posman, Anne Reverseau, David Ayers, Sascha Bru, Benedikt HjartarsonAbstract:This volume proposes an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing in modernism and the Avant-Garde. The essays explore how the Avant-Gardes and modernism attempted to establish the material specificity and hybridity of media and art forms. The collection sheds light on the full range and import of the aesthetics of matter in Avant-Garde and modernist practice across all art forms from the 19th century to the present day.
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Europa! Europa?: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent - Europa! Europa? : the Avant-Garde, modernism and the fate of a continent
2009Co-Authors: Sascha Bru, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Jan Baetens, Tania Ørum, Hubert Van Den BergAbstract:The first volume of the new series "European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies" focuses on the relation between the Avant-Garde, modernism and Europe. It combines interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics. The articles seek to bring out the complexity of the European Avant-Garde and modernism by relating it to Europe's intricate history, multiculturalism and multilingualism; they aim to inquire into the divergent cultural views on Europe taking shape in Avant-Garde and modernist practices and chart a composite image of the 'other Europe(s)' that have emerged from the (contemporary) Avant-Garde and experimental modernism.
Philippe Sers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Radical Avant-Garde and the Contemporary Avant-Garde
New Literary History, 2010Co-Authors: Philippe Sers, Jonathan P. EburneAbstract:This essay invokes the ontological ethos of the Avant-Garde work as a particular way of disclosing meaning. The Avant-Garde, according to Philippe Sers, signals not the ruin of representation but its redefinition; not the debunking of truth but a new relationship to truth. Here Sers manifests his impatience with current accounts of the Avant-Garde that remain fixated on its nihilism, formal novelty, and value-leveling dimensions. The contemporary infatuation with transgression epitomizes a false transcendence that only plays into the logic of contemporary capitalism. Highlighting the strains of iconophobia that pervades language-based aesthetic theories, the essay calls for a new reassessment of the cognitive and transformative power of images. The status of the original Avant-Garde work as even lies not in its negativity but its utopianism, its harboring of a moment of transcendence that is profoundly ethical in its implications.
