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<span><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="673" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tr style="height:15.75pt;"><td style="width:504.7pt;padding:0.75pt 0.75pt 0pt 0.75pt;border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none" valign="bottom" width="673"><span><span style="font-style:italic;">Brave New Avant Garde </span><span>is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Brave New Avant Garde</span><span> stands in opposition to postmodern post-politics and the view that radical practice has no other future than its reduction to the workings of the free market in the form of the &quot;simple process of cultural production&quot; or to variations on the cultural politics of representation. Today&#39;s avant garde, formed in the wake of the end of the Soviet Union and the rise of the anti-globalization movement, represents a counter-power that rejects the inevitability of capitalist integration. The way

Who reads Brave New Avant Garde : Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics?

Author

Léger, Marc James

Publisher

O-Books;Zero Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780990514

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Art, Literary Fiction