Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 07:58:31 EDT
From: ma-AT-dsd.camb.inmet.com (Malgosia Askanas)
Subject: Re:avant-garde today?


Alastair wrote:

> Anyway, Ford tried to distinguish between "an 'avant-gardism' that
> supports that which superficially contravenes conventional form of
> art and the 'avant-garde' that works towards the total eradication
> of the institution of art and by extension the whole prevailing
> social order". 

I would love to see a discussion of this notion that the total
eradication of the institution of art can, _by extension_, eradicate
the social order.  To what extent does this notion make sense?  What
are its roots?

- malgosia 


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