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- catalog abstract ""That there is a problem about modern art few would deny. Does it, as the art of the past always did, 'express the times', or is it a series of wilful aberrations? Do we have any way of judging its success or failure?" "Bypassing art/criticism and art/theory, Britain's social historian approaches the question from a new angle altogether. It is Professor Hobsbawm's thesis that, unlike writers and composers, who have come to terms with mass/production and the technology of infinite repetition, painters still cling to the unique art/object, the product of the artist's own hands. The result has been a succession of increasingly desperate 'avant/gardes', attempts to find relevance and meaning that - irrespective of the individual artist's talent or even genius - are doomed to failure. Not everyone will accept this analysis, but it is a major contribution to a dilemma of our time, and one which both artists and critics cannot afford to ignore."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Decline and fall of the twentieth-century avant-gardes".
- catalog contributor b11093411.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""That there is a problem about modern art few would deny. Does it, as the art of the past always did, 'express the times', or is it a series of wilful aberrations? Do we have any way of judging its success or failure?" "Bypassing art/criticism and art/theory, Britain's social historian approaches the question from a new angle altogether. It is Professor Hobsbawm's thesis that, unlike writers and composers, who have come to terms with mass/production and the technology of infinite repetition, painters still cling to the unique art/object, the product of the artist's own hands. The result has been a succession of increasingly desperate 'avant/gardes', attempts to find relevance and meaning that - irrespective of the individual artist's talent or even genius - are doomed to failure. Not everyone will accept this analysis, but it is a major contribution to a dilemma of our time, and one which both artists and critics cannot afford to ignore."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 45).".
- catalog extent "48 p. :".
- catalog identifier "050055031X".
- catalog isPartOf "Walter Neurath memorial lectures ; 30th".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson,".
- catalog subject "709.04 21".
- catalog subject "Art and society History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Art and society.".
- catalog subject "Art criticism.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "N6490 .H617 1999".
- catalog title "Behind the times : the decline and fall of the twentieth-century avant-gardes / Eric Hobsbawm.".
- catalog title "Decline and fall of the twentieth-century avant-gardes".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".