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Avant Garde
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[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during
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― The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
― The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
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The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption.
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― For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
― For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
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