Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Avant-Garde

By: Edward Lucie-Smith
Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £2.99

Buy Now for £2.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

The term avant-garde continues to be used, in my opinion with far too much frequency, in discussions of contemporary art. It derives, of course, from military terminology, and implies that the art to which it is applied is somehow ahead of the game.

It’s worth taking a look at how this assumption works in practice. Essentially, Western and now world art has witnessed the emergence of a series of avant-gardes since just before the third quarter of the 19th century. One may perhaps give Impressionism the honor of being the first avant-garde as we now understand matters. Until quite recently, avant-gardes tended to develop in orderly, quasi-hierarchical succession. Impressionism begat Post-Impressionism. Cubism was displaced in due course by Surrealism. Surrealism was displaced by Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Expressionism was vanquished by Pop Art, and Pop, in very short order, was challenged by Minimalism.

©2014, 2018 Cv Publications (P)2018 Cv Publications
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Body Art and Abjection cover art
Comparative Literature cover art
Among the Scientologists cover art
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe cover art
History cover art
You and Your Profile cover art
Science Fiction cover art
A Macat Analysis of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution cover art
Cataloging the World cover art
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed cover art
Karl Marx & The Communist Manifesto: The Life and Legacy of the Author and Book cover art
Autobiography cover art
Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet) cover art
Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies cover art
Styles of Radical Will cover art
Modernism: The Strange Story of Art and Music in the Twentieth Century cover art

What listeners say about Avant-Garde

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.