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Part of the book: The Integrity of the Avant-Garde

Peter Zusi

Visual Culture 2

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Abstract.  Chapter 3 discuss Teige’s earliest theoretical writings through the question of ‘tendentiousness’. Following a brief initial embrace of the notion of tendentiousness, Teige then turned sharply against all forms of direct political messaging or ‘agitation’ in culture. The chapter argues that this should not be understood simply as an about-face or stage in Teige’s development towards more radical avant-gardist positions, but that it reveals hidden logical continuities linking avant-gardism to the agitprop ideals that many left-wing thinkers used to attack the formal and intellectual experimentation of the avant-garde.

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