Avant gardism

[Dirigent]

This article, written in 1995, is still valid and compelling and perfectly expresses my own ideas about avant gardism - which, as I see, exists for its own sake:

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/cultn/cultn035.pdf

 

[John Watt]

Any chance you can provide an English translation for "avant garde"?

 

[Dirigent]

Read the article and see if you can work it out. You'll get the idea once you've read it; I'm confident of that.

Alternately, there is always Google.

 

[John Anthony]

That's an excellent article that sums up my feelings on the avant-garde: the emperor isn't wearing any clothes!