Avangard and Peter Bürger As An Uprising to Art

Abstract

The term "avant-garde" (from French meaning "pioneer") is traditionally used to describe any artist, group, or style considered to be significantly ahead of the majority in their technique, subject, or practice. This is a very vague definition because there is no clear consensus as to whether an artist is ahead of his time or what is meant by being advanced. In other words, being avant-garde involves exploring new artistic methods or trying new techniques to produce good art. The idea of the avant-garde traditionally depends on two interpretations. On the one hand, it is seen as inextricably linked with a radical social or political program so that extreme art becomes the vehicle of extreme social and political activity. On the other hand, avant-garde art has been a pure stylistic field of experience, free from any social concerns. This article analyzes how the avant-garde has been theorized in the last years of the twentieth century. First of all, it is to question how the theorizing of the avant-garde both affects our understanding of certain works of art, and how it affects aesthetics in a broader sense, and to explain the theory of the avantgarde according to Peter Bürger's thoughts.