We artists will serve you as an avant-garde, the power of the arts is most immediate: when we want to spread new ideas we inscribe them on marble or canvas. He believed in the social power of the arts and saw artists, alongside scientists and industrialists, as the leaders of a new society. It first appeared with reference to art in France in the first half of the nineteenth century, and is usually credited to the influential thinker Henri de Saint-Simon, one of the forerunners of socialism. Edinburgh International Festival, The Richard Demarco GalleryĪRTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of ScotlandĪvant-garde is originally a French term, meaning in English vanguard or advance guard (the part of an army that goes forward ahead of the rest). Joseph Beuys ‘Avant Garde Art: What’s Going Up in the 80’s?’.
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