In 2013, a century or so after the inception of cubism and futurism, is it possible to imagine a work (or works) of art made today representing a comparable understanding of the (an) avant garde? Why or why not? If the avant garde could exist in the present how would we identify or describe it?
Refer to at least two of the readings assigned in class, should be 250-300 words
Readings: chearles baudeaire, œthe Painter of Modern Life
Edgar Allan Poe, from œThe Man of the Crowd
Champfleury, œThe Burial at Omans
Stephane Mallarme, œNeo-Impressionists and Edouard Manet
Felix Feneon, œCesanne
Henri Matisse, œNotes of a PAinter
Peter Watkins, The Commune
Marcel Duchamp, œThe Richard Mutt Case
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. œfrom Cubism and Abstract Art
Meyer Schapiro, œThe Social Bases of Art
Clement Greenberg, œAvant-Garde and Kitsch
Moira Roth, œDuchamp in America: A Self Ready-made
Andre Breton, œFrom the first manifesto of surrealism œSurrea;ism and painting and œfrom the second manifesto of surrealism (p. 447, 457, 463)
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