Avant-garde - is the reaction of the art and aesthetic consciousness to a global turn in the cultural and civilizational processes caused by the scientific and technological progress of the last century.
The main thing in the avant-garde art is its activity - it was made to amaze, disrupt, stir, provoke an active reaction in a person. At the same time, this reaction should be immediate, instantaneous, without long and deep thinking. Person that negatively relates to the avant-garde is its most adequate reader, listener, viewer. The avant-garde art mostly is directed to this person and preserves its avant-garde quality only as long as it continues to provoke active denial of avant-garde itself.
Extravagance and gaudiness is avant-garde most significant part.
Nostalgia - is an expression of dissatisfaction with the present.
Appropriation - Artist’s practice, which uses already created / existing works of art and objects with a slight change, unlike the original. To appropriate - means not just to copy, but to place a new work in a different context, giving it new meanings.
Parody – in literature, music, fine arts - a comic imitation of an artistic work or a group of works. It is usually built on the stylistically and thematically intentional mismatch of artistic form and structure.
Irony – it is an insult disguised as a compliment.
Ideology - The system of views, ideas that characterize any social group, class, political party, society.
Genre - A variety of works within any kind of art, characterized by some or other narrative and stylistic features.
Dogmatism – is characterized by noncriticality with respect to dogmas (lack of criticism and doubt) and conservatism of thinking (inability to perceive information contrary to dogmas), blind faith in authorities.
Sherrie Levine - The appropriation in photography made its appearance at the 1981 exhibition "Sherrie Levine after Walker Evans", which was shown in New York in the Metro Pictures Gallery. At the exhibition there was a series of photos of the famous photographer Walker Evans, which Sherrie Levine photographed directly from the catalog of Walker Evans exhibition. Levine’s gesture allows to interpret yourself in various ways: it is a gesture of appropriation and at the same time rejects every creative act. By appropriating these images, Levine raises questions about class, identity, politics, the nature of creativity, and situations in which the context affects the viewing of photographs. Her postmodern claim, that you can reshoot the image and create something new in the process, criticizes the modernist concept of originality (although this leads to the creation of an alternative postmodern originality in the process).
Sherrie Levine - The appropriation in photography made its appearance at the 1981 exhibition "Sherrie Levine after Walker Evans", which was shown in New York in the Metro Pictures Gallery. At the exhibition there was a series of photos of the famous photographer Walker Evans, which Sherrie Levine photographed directly from the catalog of Walker Evans exhibition. Levine’s gesture allows to interpret yourself in various ways: it is a gesture of appropriation and at the same time rejects every creative act. By appropriating these images, Levine raises questions about class, identity, politics, the nature of creativity, and situations in which the context affects the viewing of photographs. Her postmodern claim, that you can reshoot the image and create something new in the process, criticizes the modernist concept of originality (although this leads to the creation of an alternative postmodern originality in the process).
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