File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-02-19.172, message 175


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.




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