Objectives
- understand the term 'avant-garde'- question the way art/design education relies on the concept of the avant-garde
- understand the related concept of 'art for art's sake'
- question the notion of 'genius'
- consider political perspectives relating to avant-gardism
- question the validity of the conceot 'avant-garde' today
Dictionary definition
- 1. being avant-garde in the work you do - challenging, innovating etc.
- 2. begin part of a group - being a member of the avant-garde
There were two approaches to avant-garder at the end of the 19th/early 20th Century
- 1. art that is socially committed and pushing forward political objectives
- 2. art that seeks only to expand/progress what art is (art for art's sake)
Art for art's sake dominated practise and thinking in 20th Century art
Kitch
- simplification of style
- Commeration
- Themes tha aims to be taken seriously as fine art
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