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This 3 page paper describes the avant-garde and argues that it is still with us. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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developments in the field. This paper considers the avant-garde and whether or not it can be said to be over. Discussion According to one source, the avant-garde "perceives itself to
be part of a self-consciously modern culture subject to constant socio-historical change" (The avant-garde). In addition, it is "highly critical of ... the dominant values of that culture"; it reflects
the artists hope that he or she will create a new role for themselves in society, and at times artists ally themselves with forces for social change; and most important
of all, "the avant-garde explores through aesthetic disruption and innovation the possibilities of creating new art forms and languages which will bring forth new modes of perceiving, expressing, and acting
- which will, in effect, proclaim the avant-garde writers as poets, prophets and revolutionaries" (The avant-garde). We can already see that the answer to the question, Is the avant-garde over?,
has to be "no." While certain ideas and types of music or literature that were once considered avant-garde are over-the Vorticists in England, for example, are no longer cutting edge-there
are still people we must consider innovators who are taking the arts to places theyve never been before (Arata, 2002). Certainly directors like Quentin Tarantino continue to bring new innovations
to the art of the motion picture; and just this past month, Zack Snyder directed 300, a film starring Gerard Butler and based on a graphic novel that is unlike
anything ever seen before. It is cutting edge, state of the art; it is avant-garde. However, one source says that the avant-garde movement belonged to a specific time and place,
and that its over. "The avant-garde, which by design was one of the most controversial art movements, began in France in 1850" (The avant-garde movement). The artists who were part
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