id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7hwd3gqirzbu5n2pvk7maimsve Gerald Keaney A New Avant-Garde? 2011 10 .pdf application/pdf 5072 729 70 To cite this article: Gerald Keaney (2011): A New Avant-Garde?, Rethinking Marxism: A Situationist argument that revolutionary art is impossible. I believe that, by concentrating on the truthtelling possibilities of art, we can meet the Situationist argument. Key Words: Avant-Garde, Everyday Life, Truth, Situationist International, Surrealism Situationist International (1957� 71) argued that revolutionary art is a contradictio in Though the Situationists themselves gave us systematic formal innovation (especially détournement), they think of themselves as the last avant-garde and then only I will begin by arguing that the avant-garde requires art to be truthful about the The first section examines the Situationists' argument for why revolutionary art is a would be neither revolutionary art nor avant-garde, but ''group innovators in the area of form.'' for instance, believed that art could utter truths about preconscious potential in the analysis of truth in art or to rule out the surface effects for the avant-garde approach. Truth in art. ./cache/work_7hwd3gqirzbu5n2pvk7maimsve.pdf ./txt/work_7hwd3gqirzbu5n2pvk7maimsve.txt