THE HEGEMONY OF "ISMS" AS FAILURE OF THE AVANT-GARDE - WANDERING THROUGH THE REALM OF “ISMS”
THE HEGEMONY OF "ISMS" AS FAILURE OF THE AVANT-GARDE - WANDERING THROUGH THE REALM OF “ISMS”

Summary/Abstract: The ism is like a cupola accommodating the various artistic trends and fundamental styles, or sheltering certain manners, all being related to the specificity of certain attitudes derived from the diverse aesthetic approaches. The ism groups, parcels out, catalogues and systematizes what in artistic practice is often difficult or even impossible to grasp. Viewed from the perspective of a desideratum, the ism can be nothing but a preconceived idea imposed a priori upon an aesthetic attitude. Hence, a confusing reversal of values occurred right in the yard of those interested in the articulation of some systemic visions. Instead of being presented with the object of creation, we are presented with the tools with which the object was shaped. The negative spirit of the "anti" realm has shaped itself by tenaciously producing a series of aesthetic categories pompously called anti-categories. The fickleness of the taste governed by the subjective we like has insinuated itself legitimizing a genuine antimetaphoric mannerism. And from here to the opportunism of it is in, or it is out, born from the arbitrariness of the ephemeral fashion, there was only one step to go; as to fashion and its insinuation in art, we will leave that for some other occasion.

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