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Title The idea of the avant-garde: and what it means today / edited by Marc James Léger.
Publisher Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.


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 In Library  1 week  Library Level 10  Philosophy qPK130 LEG  

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Description 285 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN 9780719096914 paperback
071909691X paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary This book is premised on the view that the idea of the avant garde has an increased importance in these times of global political crisis. Much cultural production today is shaped by a biopolitics that construes all creative and knowledge production in terms of capital accumulation. A different kind of culture is possible. This collection of writings, essays, interviews and artworks by many of today's most radical cultural practitioners and astute commentators on matters avant garde mediates the different strategies and temporalities of avant-garde art and politics. Tracing diverse genealogies and trajectories, the book offers an inter-generational forum of ideas that covers different arts fields, from visual art, art activism, photography, film and architecture, to literature, theatre, performance, intermedia and music.
Library Class Philosophy PK130
Subject Art -- Political aspects.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Other Author Léger, Marc James, 1968- editor.

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