{"id":140,"date":"2010-09-14T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-12-09T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T11:36:57","slug":"art-and-anarchism-failed-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2010\/09\/art-and-anarchism-failed-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"primacy of the art object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joaap.org\/7\/bell.html\">Between Art and Anarchism<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The similarities between the <span style=\"color: #888888;\">avant-garde<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #888888;\">anarchism<\/span> extend beyond their similar <em>\u201cshock and rupture\u201d tactics<\/em>; <big><big>political theorists and art historians alike have declared both to be failed movements.<\/big><\/big> In the avant-garde movement, this failure arises from a <big>paradoxical hierarchy <big>encased in the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">primacy of the art object<\/span>.<\/big><\/big><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If the art object itself contains the power to elicit epiphany, than the artist is elevated to a status \u201cuniquely open to the world,\u201d and viewers that are open to the transformative experience of the object are likewise more educated and socially aware than those who are not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Art and Anarchism The similarities between the avant-garde and anarchism extend beyond their similar \u201cshock and rupture\u201d tactics; political theorists and art historians alike have declared both to be failed movements. In the avant-garde movement, this failure arises from a paradoxical hierarchy encased in the primacy of the art object. If the art object [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}