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Flavin Monument for V. Tatlin, 1966-69
© ARS, NY and DACS, London 2004
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Session 1: Theories of the Avant-Garde
This talk sets up the day's discussions by
considering the interrelated concepts of the 'avant-garde' and
'neo-avant-garde'. While looking briefly at the origins of the
concepts, and some of the confusions of terminology that are frequently
encountered in the literature, the main focus of the talk will
address the crucial role - ideological and aesthetic - that the
idea of 'avant-gardism' has played within twentieth-century debates
on art and culture, and which continues to be at issue among many
contemporary artists. The key theories, critiques and accounts
associated with the subject - including, inter alia, that of Peter
Bürger - will be outlined and explored, and, as theories, situated
historically.
Webcast
of Session 1 (Real Media stream)
Speaker: Gail Day, Senior Lecturer in art
theory and history at Wimbledon School of Art and an editor of
the Oxford Art Journal.
Suggested Further Reading
- Peter Bürger, extract from 'Theories of the Avant-Garde'
(1974), in Steve Edwards, ed., Art and its Histories: A
Reader, Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 216-220, or, with
a different edit, in Jason Gaiger and Paul Wood, eds, Art
of the Twentieth Century: A Reader, Yale University Press,
2003, pp. 56-62.
- Andreas Huyssen, 'extract from 'After the Great Divide' (1986),
in Steve Edwards, ed., Art and its Histories: A Reader,
Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 221-224.
- Benjamin Buchloh, extract from 'The Primary Colors for the Second Time: A Paradigm Repetition of the Neo-Avant-Garde' (1986), in Jason Gaiger and Paul Wood, eds, Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader, Yale University Press, 2003, pp. 98-106.
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