Golden Avant-Garde: Idolatry, Commercialism, and Art

by Louis Cicotello and Raphael Sassower

Book Overview

Since the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for their complex position, argue Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. In the twentieth century, artists can criticize the worship of material things or they can produce the things themselves. They can paint the scenes of worship of the golden...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813919347
• ISBN13: 9780813919348
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"