Avant-Garde Groups and Their Invariant Development-Structures. Example: Die Brücke Group Cover Image

Avant-Garde Groups and Their Invariant Development-Structures. Example: Die Brücke Group
Avant-Garde Groups and Their Invariant Development-Structures. Example: Die Brücke Group

Author(s): Karin M. Hofer
Subject(s): Sociology of Art
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku
Keywords: art theory; development of avant-gardes; cultural cycle; performative turn; dramatic arc; echo chamber

Summary/Abstract: What are the evident structural invariants of avant-gardes? No one really answer this question. So new enquiries and comparative studies of avant-garde groups became necessary and produced results that make this fundamental phenomenon of the Modern Era perhaps more understandable.The seven steps of the development of an avant-garde group show a surprising homology to the seven steps of the plot and story arc of a classic drama. Based on the dramaturgy of Aristotle, Horaz and later the Humanists, called this model Regeldrama (regular drama), and it is until today the basis of modern dramaturgy. Indeed, the fights of avant-gardes really have a dramatic-performative dimension and the surprising homology of the seven steps is perhaps an archetypic pattern here. The structure of subversion in the seven steps of avant-gardes will be explain using the Die Brücke group as an example.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 105-118
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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