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Manifesto of Vandalism

Manifesto of Vandalism

Mann, James

Paperback

Art Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 0980227895
ISBN13: 9780980227895
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Sep 11 2015
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Manifesto of Vandalism is essential reading for those interested in understanding the condition of the contemporary fine arts and the nature of their most advanced developments. The author's intention is to identify and define the most important new work in the fine arts, and to establish a critical framework upon and within which to base such judgements. Thus the book proposes, devises, and exemplifies a radically original discourse for the evaluation of recently and newly created works of art, a discourse which nevertheless bases its arguments on a historical overview of art since the Renaissance. The discourse employs new and unprecedented nomenclature upon which it is predicated, including a clear rationale for the term Vandalism itself. The argument initially focuses on the paradigmatic difference between art created before and after the birth of Romanticism around 1800. Demonstrating that two centuries of culturally dismantling activity brought the fine arts by 2000 to a state of complete artistic impoverishment, Mann concludes that the inevitable work at the present innovative frontier is to reconstitute the several fine arts upon and beyond the high-cultural ruins of Post-modernism.

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