The Formation of the Avant-Garde in Paris and London, c. 1880-1915

• Autores: David Cottington
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 35, Nº. 3, 2012, págs. 596-621
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The potential of ‘the avant-garde’ and ‘avant-gardism’ as explanatory concepts and as agents of historical change are once again being recognized. Yet the most infl uential model for conceptualizing its emergence, role and signifi cance remains Peter Bürger’s Theory of the Avant-Garde of 1974, a text which has serious shortcomings as historical analysis. This essay contests Bürger’s model by considering what constituted the formation of the avant-garde, and how it came to be formed. Tracing the phases of the history of the fi rst artistic avant-garde, that of Paris, the essay considers the applicability of these conditions to the conjuncture of pre-1914 London, comparing Bloomsbury, the Camden Town Group and the Vorticists, and argues that they must be seen as integral to the larger cultural fi eld of the European avant-garde, if either they or it are to be adequately understood.