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What is Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art about?
Donald Kuspit offers a radical new interpretation of avant-garde art based on a psychological understanding of it. Avant-garde art, Kuspit suggests, is a response to the modern crowd, which undermines and destroys the sense of self. The artist tries to restore his sense of self through one or more of several techniques: identifying with his medium; demonstrating the crowd's perversity and insanity; making hallucinatory art that shows his own insanity; or transcending the crowd altogether by escaping into a world of abstraction. An extensive reinterpretation of Manet keynotes the book.
- Author
- Donald B. Kuspit
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521452779
- Subjects
- Art, History, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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