The Avant Garde and Modernism

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A question (from Woods)

 

1. broad contours

 

A. Modern/modernity/Modernism: what is it?
Two views on Modernity:
         1. culmination of Enlightenment rationality
         2.  ideology and the rise of industrial capitalism

Modernism: a cultural reaction to modernity

 

B. Avant garde: evolution of the term
Three views on the avant garde
positive

negative

contested

Canonical examples

 

C. Changes wrt the Avant garde

The avant garde : Second half of the 18th century
The avant garde 1920s and 30s

Dada "true dadaists are against dada"
vs. Futurists

women in/and dada
(viewing: hannah Hocke. time permitting)

surrealism (and Breton)

a game

The avant garde Post WWII 

2 imp characteristics

viewing: Europe after the Rain: Surrealism and dada