The Originality of the Avant-Garde
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| - | {{Template}}'''''The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths''''' is a 1985 [[art history]] book by [[Rosalind E. Krauss]]. | + | {| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5" |
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| + | "If one of the tenets of [[modernist literature]] had been the creation of a work that would force [[reflection]] on the conditions of its own construction, that would insist on reading as a much more consciously critical act, then it is not surprising that the medium of a [[postmodernist literature]] should be the critical text wrought into a ''[[paraliterary]]'' form. And what is clear is that [[Barthes]] and [[Derrida]] are the writers, not the critics, that students now read." | ||
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| + | '''''The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths''''' is a 1985 [[art history]] book by [[Rosalind E. Krauss]]. | ||
| - | == Trivia == | + | Krauss uses the [[grid]] as a [[metaphor]] and contends that the [[avant-garde is dead]]. |
| - | The [[toe]] on the cover of the book is by [[Jacques-André Boiffard ]], ''The Big Toe'' (1929). | + | |
| + | == Trivia == | ||
| + | The [[toe]] on the cover of the book is by [[Jacques-André Boiffard]], ''[[The Big Toe]]'' (1929). | ||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| *[[Avant-garde]] | *[[Avant-garde]] | ||
| *[[Originality]] | *[[Originality]] | ||
| + | == References == | ||
| + | *''The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths''. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. ISBN 0262610469 | ||
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"If one of the tenets of modernist literature had been the creation of a work that would force reflection on the conditions of its own construction, that would insist on reading as a much more consciously critical act, then it is not surprising that the medium of a postmodernist literature should be the critical text wrought into a paraliterary form. And what is clear is that Barthes and Derrida are the writers, not the critics, that students now read." |
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths is a 1985 art history book by Rosalind E. Krauss.
Krauss uses the grid as a metaphor and contends that the avant-garde is dead.
Trivia
The toe on the cover of the book is by Jacques-André Boiffard, The Big Toe (1929).
See also
References
- The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. ISBN 0262610469
