- Title
- Dividing lines: space and image as strategies of the avant-garde
- Creator
- Chapman, Michael
- Relation
- International Journal of the Image Vol. 3, Issue 3, p. 27-34
- Relation
- http://ijx.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.202/prod.163
- Publisher
- Common Ground Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Peter Burger’s 1974 book “Theory of the Avant-Garde” made the argument that certain strategies of the historical avant-garde of the 1920s were repeated (in a depoliticised form) in the creative production of the 1960s. Burger’s critique focuses on the production of images and, in particular, collage, which allowed dislocation to become a primary model of aesthetic “shock.” Pre-empting Bürger's theory, a number of critical members of the avant-garde in the 1920s has already postulated the conditions of a "pictorial architecture" and begun exploring the connections between space and image, often through the adjacent medium of film or collage. Within this work is an exploration of architecture as image: remodelled and radicalised as the fragmentary backdrop to visual art practice. Drawing from the theory of collage in both Walter Benjamin and Bürger, this paper investigates the way that spatial strategies became embedded in aesthetic production within the avant-garde of the 1920s, repositioning architecture as a critical agent in the radicalisation of art practice in the interwar period. The paper projects an expanded role for architecture in the construction of images within the avant-garde, and posits a spatial consciousness that accompanied the visual practices and experiments of Dada and surrealism in particular. By grafting fragments of “reality” against the picture plane, the avant-garde collapsed the distinction between art and life. Architecture was a radical participant in this conflation.
- Subject
- the image in society; Peter Bürger; Dada; surrealism; avant-garde; collage; architectural theory
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316358
- Identifier
- uon:23146
- Identifier
- ISSN:2154-8560
- Language
- eng
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