Friday, 3 February 2012

Avant Garde

Modern period - 1860-1960 - avant garde falls within (1912ish)

Concerned with modernity - political and aesthetic
Modernism - radical aesthetics (no politics)
Begining of moder period - money replaces status/monarchy

  • 1910 - Futurism(Italian) - Marineth - leader
  • 1916 - Dada
  • 1920 - Constructivism(Russian) 
  • 1920 - Surrealism - automatism
features of Avant garde include discontinuity.

Gustave Courbet - Realist - show world what it is
                                        - large scale / in your face
Honore Daumier -  Trains part of modernisation

Paris was rebuilt because of a cholera outbreak
Stop further revolutions - less place to run away and hide an wide streets were good for moving troops.
Increase in shops - modernity.

Middle class took over lower class in city, more apartments in center - more money.

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