The Originality of the Avant-Garde
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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. Krauss contends that the avant-garde is dead.
Robert Hughes seems to agree in this quote:
- "Where did this new academy begin? At its origins the avant-garde myth had held the artist to be a precursor; the significant work is the one that prepares the future. The cult of the precursor ended by cluttering the landscape with absurd prophetic claims. The idea of a cultural avant-garde was unimaginable before 1800. It was fostered by the rise of liberalism. Where the taste of religious or secular courts determined patronage, "subversive" innovation was not esteemed as a sign of artistic quality. Nor was the artist's autonomy, that would come with the Romantics." --Robert Hughes in The Shock of the New
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Trivia
The toe on the cover of the book is by Jacques-André Boiffard , The Big Toe (1929).
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See also
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References
- The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. ISBN 0262610469
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