The Decline and Fall of the Twentieth-Century Avant Gardes
Edición de la obra Behind the Times
| Autor | Eric Hobsbawm |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Thames & Hudson |
| Fecha de publicación | April 1, 1999 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 48 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780500550311 |
| ISBN-10 | 050055031X |
| OCLC | 41834734 |
| LCCN | 98061117 |
| Número de Cutter | H684b |
"That there is a problem about modern art few would deny. Does it, as the art of the past always did, 'express the times', or is it a series of wilful aberrations? Do we have any way of judging its success or failure?"--BOOK JACKET. "Bypassing art/criticism and art/theory, Britain's social historian approaches the question from a new angle altogether. It is Professor Hobsbawm's thesis that, unlike writers and composers, who have come to terms with mass/production and the technology of infinite repetition, painters still cling to the unique art/object, the product of the artist's own hands. The result has been a succession of increasingly desperate 'avant/gardes', attempts to find relevance and meaning that - irrespective of the individual artist's talent or even genius - are doomed to failure. Not everyone will accept this analysis, but it is a major contribution to a dilemma of our time, and one which both artists and critics cannot afford to ignore."--BOOK JACKET.