To browse Academia. Performance art is one of the most controversial trends of neo-avant-garde and one of the most difficult to characterize. Therefore, this paper will examine two notions which could prove useful in grasping some of its aspects: intermediality and performativ Left Performce Histories.
Nagy Katalin et al. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Krajewska Editor-in-Chief , Henryk C. Full- text articles are available online at www. Aesthetics in the identity projects of late modernity The position of clothing design in the avant-garde art and in the contemporary era The case of contemporary art in the Republic of South Africa Between history, myth and artistic conception Is the avant-garde intermedial?
Post-avant-garde heirs of modernist typography A case study Avant-garde architecture vs. Functionless modernist heritage buildings and the aesthetic autonomy of the citizens The plural form draws attention to other innovatory artistic currents originating later in the twentieth century and still appearing today.
This use of the term is sometimes regarded as too broad or even misguided, but it is still encountered so often that it cannot be ignored. In the Year of the Avant-garde we propose to explore this phenomenon and discuss its complexities. It became popular and gained positive connotations only in the s and s, with the development of the theory of the avant-garde, and the writings of such classics as Theodor W.
Looking from the current perspective, do the characteristics of the avant-garde distinguished by those scholars point to the historical character of this phenomenon, or can it be assumed that avant-garde is evolving with time? Is postmodernism an opposite of the avant-garde, or is it rather a perverse fulfilment of its postulates? Authors usually emphasize the temporal aspect of the avant-garde, noting how it has been ahead of its time in its understanding of art.
