ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Proletarianization, Totalitarianism, The Saturday Evening Post
Document Summary
Numerous points of entry into the avant-garde & abstraction. Although dada is quite different in its emergence from the soviet avant-garde, they both share the aspiration of identifying with, and speaking from the vantage point of the newly constituted proletariat. All three movements share the definition of the avant-garde. How does the work of art so separate from the everyday life claim to identify with & intervene on behalf of a new historical emergence. New mode of individual that is born of the capitalist mode of production & for whom the previous mode of art making coming out of mimetic tradition simply cannot speak for. In the photograph, the professor (malevich) and his students are pouring out of the train. Able to see on the top-left corner, the door/wall with a canvas of stretcher/poster/picture with a square. What is important is that in which the black square operates as a kind of banner (political messaging system)
