{"product_id":"avant-garde-and-criticism-9789042021525","title":"Avant-Garde and Criticism","description":"\u003ci\u003eAvant-Garde and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature, art, architecture and film. This volume of \u003ci\u003eAvant-Garde Critical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e will look at how art critics operated in a strategic way.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe strategies of avant-garde criticism are diverse. Art critics, especially when they are artists themselves, attempt to manipulate the cultural climate in their favour. They use their position to legitimize avant-garde concepts and to conquer a place in the cultural field. But they are also markedly influenced by the context in which they operate. The position of fellow-critics and the ideological bias of the papers in which they publish can be as important as the political climate in which their criticism flourishes. The analysis of avant-garde art criticism can also make clear how strategies sometimes fail and involuntarily display non-avant-garde characteristics. On the other hand traditionalist criticism on the avant-garde offers new insights into its status and reception  in a given time and place.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is of interest for scholars, teachers and students who are interested in the avant-garde of the interbellum-period and work in the field of literature, art, film and architecture.","brand":"Klaus Beekman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273757864187,"sku":"9789042021525","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_60da3f58-74e1-4b0a-9a25-dad2b196e980.jpg?v=1773727947","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/avant-garde-and-criticism-9789042021525","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}