The cult of the avant-garde artist /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde : from the pursuit of the primordial to the nihilism of narcissism
- Preliminary therapeutic attitude : the provocative object as a path to primordiality : Picasso and Duchamp
- The geometrical cure : art as a matter of principle : Mondrian and Malevich
- The expressive cure : art as the recovery of primal emotion : expressionism and surrealism
- Fame as the cure-all : the charisma of cynicism : Andy Warhol
- Enchanting the disenchanted : the artist's last stand : Joseph Beuys
- The decadence or cloning and coding of the avant-garde : appropriation art.