Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [avɑ̃ɡaʁd]) means "advance guard" or "vanguard".[1] The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism.
The term was originally used to describe the foremost part of an army advancing into battle (also called the vanguard) and now applied to any group, particularly of artists, that considers itself innovative and ahead of the majority.[3]
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Post Modernism
=> as critique of race, class, gender, originality.
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Postmodernism was originally a reaction to modernism. Largely influenced by the Western European "disillusionment" induced by World War II, postmodernism refers to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle and embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, interconnectedness or interreferentiality,[4] in a way that is often indistinguishable from a parody of itself.
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The status of the avant-garde is particularly controversial: many institutions argue that being visionary, forward-looking, cutting-edge, and progressive are crucial to the mission of art in the present, and therefore postmodern art contradicts the value of "art of our times". Postmodernism rejects the notion of advancement or progress in art per se, and thus aims to overturn the "myth of the avant-garde". Rosalind Krauss was one of the important enunciators of the view that avant-gardism was over, and that the new artistic era is post-liberal and post-progress.[21] One characteristic of postmodern art is its conflation of high and low culture through the use of industrial materials and pop culture imagery.
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One compact definition is that postmodernism rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, eradicating the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupting genre's conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation. Postmodern art holds that all stances are unstable and insincere, and therefore irony, parody, and humor are the only positions that cannot be overturned by critique or revision. "Pluralism and diversity" are other defining features.[28]
If you want to know more about the how and why of Po-Mo I strongly suggest you read Sandro Bocola's great final chapter of 'The Art of Modernism' @
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Radiohead - Idioteque
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Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? Women and children first. And the children first. And the children... I'll laugh until my head comes off. I'll swallow till I burst. Until I burst. Until I...
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Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? I have seen too much. You haven't seen enough. You haven't seen it. I'll laugh until my head comes off. Women and children first. And children first. And children...
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Here I'm allowed Everything all of the time. Here I'm allowed Everything all of the time. Ice age coming. Ice age coming. Let me hear both sides. Let me hear both sides. Let me hear both... Ice age coming. Ice age coming. Throw them in the fire. Throw them in the fire. Throw them in the...
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We're not scare mongering. This is really happening Happening. We're not scare mongering. This is really happening. Happening...
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Mobiles quirking. Mobiles chirping. Take the money and run. Take the money and run. Take the money.
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Here I'm allowed (background: and first and the children x6) Everything all of the time. Here I'm allowed Everything all of the time. Here I'm allowed Everything all of the time. Here I'm allowed Everything all of the time. Deaf and lost are the children (repeated).
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Patricia Piccinini
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Shuan Gladwell
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Utopian Slumps
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Retrospect Galleries
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Nine lives Gallery
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