Theory of the Avant-Garde
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Peter Bürger's Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974; English translation 1984), Burger claimed that while the Dada, Surrealist, and Constructivist avant-gardes of the early twentieth century were engaged in motivated critiques of the institution of art, the activities of the postwar avant-gardes were merely so many forms of repetition serving to institutionalize the legacy of avant-gardism itself.
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