Avant-garde and criticism / / edited by Klaus Beekman and Jan de Vries.

• Superior document: Avant garde critical studies ; 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Beekman, K.; Vries, Jan de, 1951-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Avant garde critical studies ; 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Criticism and Avant-Garde /; Art Criticism and Avant-Garde: André Lhote’s Written Works /; Architectural Criticism in de 8 en OPBOUW /; Theo van Doesburg and Writings on Film in De Stijl /; The International Theatre Exhibition of 1922 and the Critics /; The Making of a Reputation: the Case of Cobra /; Avant-Garde Reviewing of New Book Releases A Case Study from The Netherlands /; Mayakovsky as Literary Critic /; German Art in The Netherlands before and after World War II /; Banality in Art Criticism. Comments on the Reception of Art in the German Daily Press of the 1920's /; A Victorious Campaign for Dadaism? On the Press Coverage of the Dutch Dada Tour of 1923 /; The Inevitability of Argumentative Criticism Theo van Doesburg and the Constructive Review /; On Intentionality and Avant-Garde Criticism /; Resistance to the Avant-Garde Criticism of the Avant-Garde in Dutch Literary Periodicals /; Dutch Contemporaries on Proust and the Historic Avant-Garde /; The Writing Artists of the Magazine Kroniek van Kunst en Kultuur (Chronicle of Art and Culture) in the Period 1935-1941 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9401203989; 1429480599
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Klaus Beekman and Jan de Vries.

Avant-Garde and Criticism sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature, art, architecture and film. This volume of Avant-Garde Critical Studies will look at how art critics operated in a strategic way. The strategies of avant-garde criticism are diverse. Art critics, especially when they are artists themselves, attempt to manipulate the cultural climate in their favour. They use their position to legitimize avant-garde concepts and to conquer a place in the cultural field. But they are also markedly influenced by the context in which they operate. The position of fellow-critics and the ideological bias of the papers in which they publish can be as important as the political climate in which their criticism flourishes. The analysis of avant-garde art criticism can also make clear how strategies sometimes fail and involuntarily display non-avant-garde characteristics. On the other hand traditionalist criticism on the avant-garde offers new insights into its status and reception in a given time and place. This volume is of interest for scholars, teachers and students who are interested in the avant-garde of the interbellum-period and work in the field of literature, art, film and architecture.