The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist
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Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde : from the pursuit of the primordial to the nihilism of narcissism -- Preliminary therapeutic attitude : the provocative object as a path to primordiality : Picasso and Duchamp -- The geometrical cure : art as a matter of principle : Mondrian and Malevich -- The expressive cure : art as the recovery of primal emotion : expressionism and surrealism -- Fame as the cure-all : the charisma of cynicism : Andy Warhol -- Enchanting the disenchanted : the artist's last stand : Joseph Beuys -- The decadence or cloning and coding of the avant-garde : appropriation art.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Year Published: 1993
Description: 175 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0521413451
SUBJECTS
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.