MUSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Theodor W. Adorno, Dada, World War I
17 Jan 2016
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The more radical and experimental branch of modernism. A stricter definition is art that radically redefines the parameters. It can mean any art that radically departs from the mainstream. Stravinsky, schoenberg, and webern were all at one point, considered avant-garde. of what art is while at the same time advocating radical social change. Dadaism, for example, was a movement beginning in zurich in: it was a reaction to the horrors of wwi. In literature, art, and theatre, dadaism celebrated nonsense, irrationality, and intuition. It was associated with anti-art sentiment, as well is a radical left-wing agenda. Objects that were not traditionally seen as art became offered as art by the dadaists, such as marcel duchamp"s fountain, as seen on the next slide. Cultural theorists like theodor adorno and max horkheimer argued that the term avant-garde began to be applied to art that was not really avant-garde.
