Az avantgárdról II
About the Avant-garde II

Summary/Abstract: The author, former professor of Howard University, Washingotn DC and editor of the avant-garde journal Arkánum, rethinks the possible conceptualizations of the term avant-garde in reference to his landmark essay from 1981, About the Avant-Garde (I). The original approach focused on the point that the avant-garde did not go on the front, as its name suggested, but rather it went ‘away’. The current essay explores further on this idea by adding the dimensions of the essential plurality of the avant-garde, and also a historical dimension of the conceptualization. After the avant-garde, as the author argues, the art world became a sort of anarchic and spontaneous republic of artworks.

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