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Theory of the avant-garde / Peter Bürger ; translation from the German by Michael Shaw ; foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse.
Author
Bürger, Peter, 1936-
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Uniform title
Theorie der Avantgarde.
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1984]
©1984
Description
lv, 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Translator
Shaw, Michael, 1921-
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Writer of foreword
Schulte-Sasse, Jochen
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Series
Theory and history of literature ; v. 4.
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Summary note
"Peter Bürger's Theory of the Avant-Garde sets before English-language readers for the first time a fully elaborated theory of the 'institution of art.' He argues that the social history of literature and art cannot be explained by making simple, direct links between the contents of individual works and social history. Rather, he holds, it is the social status of art, its function and prestige in society, that provides the connection between the individual art work and history. Bürger's concept of the institution of art establishes a framework within which a work of art is both produced and received. The French and German literary and visual avant-garde of the 1920s provides the test of Bürger's theory. Focusing on the role of the artistic manifesto and, particularly, on the collage as an art form, he shows how avant-garde movements questioned the autonomous, self-referential status of art in bourgeois society and thus represented a radical break with the aestheticism of high modernism. Bürger attacks metaphysical aesthetics and argues instead for a materialistic aesthetic theory for today, one that is rooted in the reality of the social sphere. His theory calls into question any conventional concept of art derived from Romantic notions of organic unity. As such, Bürger's arguments should have a major impact on Anglo-American literary theory and its view of historical avant-garde movements like Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, and will be of interest to scholars and students of literature, the visual arts, and the sociology of culture in general." -- Provided by publisher
Notes
Translation of Theorie der Avantgarde.
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Bibliography: p. 122-125.
Contents
Foreword: theory of modernism versus theory of the avant-garde / Jochen Shulte-Sasse
Preliminary remarks
Introduction: theory of the avant-garde and theory of literature
Preliminary reflections on a critical literary science. Hermeneutics
Ideology critique
Analysis of functions
Theory of the avant-garde and critical literary science. The historicity of aesthetic categories
The avant-garde as the self-criticism of art in bourgeois society
Regarding the discussion of Benjamin's theory of art
On the problem of the autonomy of art in bourgeois society. Research problems
The autonomy of art in the aesthetics of Kant and Schiller
The negation of the autonomy of art by the avant-garde
The avant-gardiste work of art. On the problem of the category 'work'
The new
Chance
Benjamin's concept of allegory
Montage
Avant-garde and engagement. The debate between Adorno and Lukács
Concluding remark and a comment on Hegel.
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ISBN
0816610673
9780816610679
0816610681 ((pbk.))
9780816610686 ((pbk.))
0719014522 ((v))
9780719014529
LCCN
83010549
OCLC
9577163
International Standard Recording Code
9103380
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