An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future
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An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future. / Bolt Rasmussen, Mikkel.
Crisis and Communitas : Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics. ed. / Doroto Sajewska; Malgorzata Sugiera. London : Routledge, 2023. p. 206-220.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future
AU - Bolt Rasmussen, Mikkel
N1 - OA Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - If the notion of the avant-garde seems slightly outdated in the context of contemporary art, it appears downright unthinkable in the context of politics, not least as a model for a political community. The idea of a small cadre of people determined to advance history and lead the masses to some imagined utopia comes off as completely anachronistic today. Already in the mid-1970s it was clear that the dream of the modern revolutionary break with capitalist society was not going to materialise, and that neoliberal globalisation was using the cultural revolution of the late 1960s to introduce a new phase of capitalist accumulation. It is difficult to find more materialist accounts of the trajectory of the avant-garde. But one such analysis was made by the Italian workerist, architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri who, in Progetto e utopia from 1973, argued that the avant-garde had been unable to transcend the structures that determined it.
AB - If the notion of the avant-garde seems slightly outdated in the context of contemporary art, it appears downright unthinkable in the context of politics, not least as a model for a political community. The idea of a small cadre of people determined to advance history and lead the masses to some imagined utopia comes off as completely anachronistic today. Already in the mid-1970s it was clear that the dream of the modern revolutionary break with capitalist society was not going to materialise, and that neoliberal globalisation was using the cultural revolution of the late 1960s to introduce a new phase of capitalist accumulation. It is difficult to find more materialist accounts of the trajectory of the avant-garde. But one such analysis was made by the Italian workerist, architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri who, in Progetto e utopia from 1973, argued that the avant-garde had been unable to transcend the structures that determined it.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Avantgarde
KW - Krise
KW - Fællesskab
U2 - 10.4324/9781003231097-15
DO - 10.4324/9781003231097-15
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781032138053
SP - 206
EP - 220
BT - Crisis and Communitas
A2 - Sajewska, Doroto
A2 - Sugiera, Malgorzata
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
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