Reflections on the Ontology of Mass Art as Avant-garde Art

The heroic age of American avant-garde art

A major contribution of Pierre Bourdieu to the study of art was his analysis of the autonomization of modern art fields. His model of autonomy and legitimacy in modern art was based on a study of the genesis of an avant-garde in French art in the late nineteenth century. I argue that a similar autonomization of art occurred in the midtwentieth century in the United States. I present studies in ...

The Emergence of a Domestic Avant-garde in Contemporary Irish Art: the Paradoxical House/home

Introduction Although the domestic has been critically observed in relation to British artists in the 1990s, it has not been considered cross-culturally in terms of Irish artists. Considering many female Irish artists were coming of age in the 1990s, as part of a newly enlightened media-aware generation, conscious of feminist ideas and changing attitudes towards women both in Ireland and intern...

Science Avant-Garde

o think that the neoimpressionists are painters who cover canvases with little multicolored spots is a rather widespread mistake, " wrote Paul Signac in his manifesto of their movement. " This mediocre dot method has nothing to do with the aesthetic of the painters we are defending here, nor with the technique of divisionism they use. " Signac was referring to, among others, Georges Seurat, who...

Videogame as Avant-garde: Secluded Rhematic Expression

This article shows how the single player videogame is by its very nature in conflict with the institution of art, and paradoxically, because of that cannot avoid becoming art itself. First, the article shows that the defining aesthetic of the videogame–its kinesthetically charged ludic rhematic–has very little in common with the meaning-centered aesthetic norms that dominate the art world. Seco...

Temporalization as Transcendental Aesthetics Avant - Garde , Modern ,

a bstr act Reflections on the relationship of aesthetics to politics tend to circle, almost compulsively, around a relatively stable set of conceptual oppositions, inherited from German philosophies of the late 18th century. This essay proposes an expansion of the theoretical terms of the debate by extending the field of transcendental aesthetics into the domain of historical temporalization. F...

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