Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 01:22:00 -0400 From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda) Subject: Re: just a thought > >-If you follow the greenbergian definition, it isn't just new ideas, it's >the job of the "avant garde", the front lines of culture, to push culture >forward into the future, which assumes (incorrectly) that culture gets >better as time progresses, and for that matter, commits a fallacy of >novelty, assuming that new is intrinsically better. Greenberg never proposes that culture gets better. ( by the way time does not progress we do) Actually he does not propose that the "avant garde", the front lines of culture, pushes culture forward into the future. Nor can one find anywhere in his writings an advocacy of novelty. What he does propose and elaborate is that the historical task of the avant garde is to maintain ( by means of recuperation, innovation and inspiration) the standards of culture. The goal of this project is two fold first to maintain the historical relevance of art by moving it closer to itsessential state and secondly to induce a non-specific awareness of Self and its means. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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