Behind the Times: Decline and Fall of the Twentieth-century Avant-gardes (Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Behind the Times: Decline and Fall of the Twentieth-century Avant-gardes (Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures) Book

Does modern art, as the art of the past always did, "express the times," or is it a series of willful aberrations? Do we have any way of judging its success or failure? Bypassing art criticism and art theory, Britain's foremost social historian approaches the question from an entirely new angle. Professor Hobsbawm's thesis is that, unlike writers and composers, who have to come to terms with mass production and the technology of infinite repetition, painters still cling to the unique art-object, the product of the artist's own hands. The result has been a succession of increasingly desperate "avant-gardes," attempts to find relevance and meaning that--irrespective of the individual artist's talent--are doomed to failure.Read More

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  • 050055031X
  • 9780500550311
  • E.J. Hobsbawm
  • 18 January 1999
  • Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 48
  • illustrated edition
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