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• 1 Definition of the avant garde

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• In the Modernist period ( 1860-1960) what did all avantgarde groups - stylistic, policitical or radical - value

  From 1860-1960 ( the Modernist period) all three types of avant garde valuedoriginality and despised  repetition  (Peter Burger, Roslaind Krauss)

• Define the Avant Garde ( broadly)

  group (of artists) active in the invention and application of new ideas and techniques in an original or experimental way.

• When was the term avant garde first used about Art?

  In 1863 about impressionist  painters whose work was stylistically experimental. For example Manet's Dejeuner sur L'herbe 1863

• 1.1 stylistic avant garde

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• Who said In the succession of' isms that comprise the story of modern art  there is tracebale a unity of progress

  Sheldon Cheney in The Story of Modern Art. He meant that stylistic avantgardes were influenced by previous art and often became part of the main stream. (1958)

• Of which stylistic avant garde is this a late example.

  This painting byMatisseis a late example ofFauvism. TheFauves (1904-1908)were a small group of  artists who all adopted the same style of painting expressionistic and influenced by primitive art). The issueda manifestoand exhibited their work together.

• What does this picture have in common with Matisses' La Ronde

  Kirchners girl in a striped dress ( a painitng from the Die Brucke school) is similar to Matisse La Ronde ( a painting in a late fauvist style)  Because the schools appeared at the same time (1904 1905) in two different places ( Fauvism France, Die Brucke Germany) and have the same stylistic influences - primitive art.

• How did this avant garde painting become part of the mainstream?

  Franz Marc's Large Blue Horses (1911) is an example of the work of the Der Blaue Reiter , a german avantgarde school whose uses ofvivid colour, distorted form andstrong brushstrokes to convey inner feeling  became typical of Expressionism, the dominant art style in Germany from 1913-1930.

• 1.2 the political avant garde.

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• What is the autonomy of Art?

  The autonomy of art is the belief that art exists separately from the real world. It is commonly called ed Art for Arts Sake. In the Theory of the Avant Garde Peter Brucker

  argues that one charcateristic of a true avant garde ( as opposed to a stylistic one) is that ir rejects the authonomy of art.

• Which political avant garde movement produced this picture and what were their politics

  Futurism.  Boccioni The City Rises is marked by the depiction of movement, and putting the spectator at the centre of the action.

  It's politics were nationalist, pro-war and violence and pro- industrial. They were proto-fascist - the fascist party had not yet been invented.

• 2 The historic avant garde. Bürger

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• Who is this artist and why is his image an artwork.

  Josef Beuys - Avantgarde artist of the 50s and 60s and member of Fluxus - used his image as an artwprk. His face (and hat) is as iconic as his work.