Do we need the avant-garde? a talk by Russell Smith
Schedule
Mon Mar 31 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Free Times Cafe | Toronto, ON
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Soluble Fish presents:DO WE NEED THE AVANT-GARDE?
a talk by Russell Smith
Monday March 31, 7:30
Free Times Cafe 320 College Street Toronto
PWYC
hosted by Beatriz Hausner
In an age when artists feel that their role is to help effect change in an unjust society, is there any role for art purely preoccupied with its form? Is there a political role for art that is formally experimental?
Russell Smith will approach this question through a reflection on the disputed meaning of various terms — modernist, avant-gardist, abstract, conceptualist — using examples of influential movements in visual art, literature and music.
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