Avant-garde became a kind of generic term for a number of art movements centered on the idea of artistic autonomy and independence.
Can avant-garde stem from a blending of traditional values? What is and can the new avant-garde characterized by, in the context of contemporary issues faced by humanity.
The avant-garde was never a cohesive group of artists and what was avant-garde in one nation was not necessarily the same in others.
DIY is my American avant-garde
Art moved from representing human experience and its relationship to God’s creation, to a focus on personal emotions and individual spiritual experiences that were not based in any organized and institutionalized religion.
Shift in art focus correlated to what we "believed" in as a society at the time
One consequence was that some people in industrialized areas thought of themselves as advanced and modern and considered others as comparatively primitive and backward.
Is increased sufficiency brought upon by technology an advancement of society? What defines societies attachment to humanity? Can society outpace humanity?
These notions attach "intrinsic value" to our perception of our selves, and humanity in general. Advances in technology =/= an advancement of humanity, maybe in some aspects but overall I do not believe so.
new complications such as growing urban crime, sex work, alienation, and depersonalization.
These problems have existed, and still exist today, but in a much more complex manner. The normalization of depersonalized traits and alienation from one another is the scariest threat to humanity at this time with the increasing prevalence of technology stripping away our fundamental human values.
The Industrial Revolution also fostered a sense of competition and a sense of progress (some real, some illusory) that continues to influence us today.
Accelerationism, technology, and AI are widening the wealth gap between the working class and billionaires, resulting in the erosion of communal values in place of hedonistic and individualistic values.
exchanged their labor for a fixed wage.
Capitalism -> the modern concept of a "9-5" and the shift of the working class towards wage labor.
In the 19th century, wealth produced by mass-manufacturing and the exchange of goods (capitalism) competed with aristocratic wealth based on large land holdings.
Businesses and manufacturing companies had upheaved the wealthy aristocrats that dominated the preceding era.
agriculturally-based society into a modern one with cities and factories and mass transportation.
Industrialization had rapidly advanced society in the Western world, marking the "modern" era from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.