Brave New Avant Garde: Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics

by Marc James Leger

Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to postmodern post-politics and the view that radical practice has no other future than its reduction to the workings of the free...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780990502
• ISBN13: 9781780990507
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"