Avant-Garde Manifesto

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004685871_008

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In this paper, avant-garde manifesto is treated as an (anti)artistic genre which should be analysed first and foremost as rhetoric device which, by using special effects of addressing the public, builds a kind of performance using subversive intertextual means. These means belong to transitional line between art and politics. Their political moment consists of oxymoron because manifestoes develop poetics of irrational deliberation. As anti-aesthetic and anti-artistic genre, they represent forceful break through into the public sphere, leaving behind destruction of institution of art and institution of politics. As provocative political device, they develop criticism of the institution of art and the institution of politics built on terms of aesthetic modernism and political modernity subverting hegemony of their concepts. Manifesto is a provocation tout court: it calls forth and challenges institution of art and institution of politics to reveal their ruptures, but what they make visible is that relationship between art and politics is productive because they both are networks of power. Twentieth century was a century of avant-gardes because it was a century of totalitarianism and massive violence. Here is a promise: twenty-firth century will have its avant-garde as well.

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The European Avant-Garde â A Hundred Years Later

Series:Â Transcultural Aesthetics, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004685871

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Print Publication Date:: 28 Dec 2023

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