The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths

Krauss, R. E. (1985). The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. MIT Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1985

Link

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262610469/the-originality-of-the-avant-garde-and-other-modernist-myths/

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art_aesthetics

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Primes

• Abstraction in Art
  • A common failure is treating abstraction as merely subtractive, missing its generative and innovative capacity

    This sourceCritiques the modernist myth of original abstraction, arguing avant-garde innovation is structured by repetition, copy, and grid; supports the reduction-vs-innovation tension (D37-012).

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