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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde: From the Pursuit of the Primordial to the Nihilism of Narcissism
- 2 Preliminary Therapeutic Attitude: The Provocative Object as a Path to Primordiality – Picasso and Duchamp
- 3 The Geometrical Cure: Art as a Matter of Principle – Mondrian and Malevich
- 4 The Expressive Cure: Art as the Recovery of Primal Emotion – Expressionism and Surrealism
- 5 Fame as the Cure-All: The Charisma of Cynicism – Andy Warhol
- 6 Enchanting the Disenchanted: The Artist's Last Stand – Joseph Beuys
- 7 The Decadence or Cloning and Coding of the Avant-Garde: Appropriation Art
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde: From the Pursuit of the Primordial to the Nihilism of Narcissism
- 2 Preliminary Therapeutic Attitude: The Provocative Object as a Path to Primordiality – Picasso and Duchamp
- 3 The Geometrical Cure: Art as a Matter of Principle – Mondrian and Malevich
- 4 The Expressive Cure: Art as the Recovery of Primal Emotion – Expressionism and Surrealism
- 5 Fame as the Cure-All: The Charisma of Cynicism – Andy Warhol
- 6 Enchanting the Disenchanted: The Artist's Last Stand – Joseph Beuys
- 7 The Decadence or Cloning and Coding of the Avant-Garde: Appropriation Art
- Notes
- Index
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- The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist , pp. 114 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993