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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America

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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America. By Fernando Rosenberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 224. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Critical approaches to the avant-garde tend to adopt temporal frames to explain the emergence of artistic movements and their objectives. In Theory of the Avant-Garde (1984) for example, Peter Burger proposes an understanding of the historic European avant-gardes in terms of three stages: the rise of a market for secular artwork produced for the urban bourgeoisie, the development of an "autonomous" field oriented toward art pour l'art, and finally, a radical institutional critique of autonomy that ...

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