How does the dialectic of autonomous art and critical avant-garde, as presented in the class lectures, play out in the work discussed in your textbook? In order to address this question, the terms have to be addressed first. Greenburg said that autonomous art is the independence of art from society, an idea that would necessitate the severing of all ties of the art and the artist from social, economical and historical contexts. To create this …showed first 75 words of 498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 498 total…way in which the avante-garde has presented itself. I¹’m sure that now we can safely say what was avant-garde in the art world a hundred years ago, but when the art is from the present, recognizing the avant-garde gets difficult. This is where the distinction between avant-garde and critical avant-garde is made. Critical avant-garde is the understanding of art as it occurs and being able to make that separation in the present. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**