LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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The avant-garde, a military term meaning “advanced guard, ” was founded in France in the mid-19th century.
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The term avant-garde itself means “advanced guard, ” and the military role of the advanced guard and the role of the avant-garde art movement are much of the same.
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The realist painter Gustave Courbet never considered himself a member of the avant-garde.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The avant-garde is predominantly a modernist term for a movement in art, culture, and politics that cuts at the vanguard of ideas both in terms of their mode of expression and the social impact that they have for everyday living.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bold, innovative, progressive, experimental-all words that describe art that pushes boundaries and creates change. These characteristics are also all associated with a term that is often used but sometimes misconceived-avant-garde.
Detailed explanation-3: -The avant-garde critique of the capitalist mode of production and its impact upon cultural producers, artists, has many consequences. First, the avant-garde artist is always alienated from the audience, outside the mainstream of traditional art and scornful of the middle class and its utilitarian preferences.