The Idea of the Avant Garde: And What It Means Today

The Idea of the Avant Garde: And What It Means Today is premised on the view that the idea of the avant garde has an increased importance in these times of global political crisis. Much cultural production today is shaped by a biopolitics that construes all creative and knowledge production in terms of capital accumulation. A different kind of culture is possible. This collection of writings, essays, interviews and artworks by many of today's most radical cultural practitioners and astute commentators on matters avant garde mediates the different strategies and temporalities of avant-garde art and politics. Tracing diverse genealogies and trajectories, the book offers an inter-generational forum of ideas that covers different arts fields, from visual art, art activism, photography, film and architecture, to literature, theatre, performance, intermedia and music.


Author: Marc James Léger
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 03/01/2015
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780719096914

About the Author

Marc James Léger is an Independent Scholar