![]() But was that enough? The Situationist International tells why and how the ‘last avant garde,’ that of the Situationists (1957-1972), went beyond art. Disdaining form, these avant-gardes also opposed a system of war, plague and business. From the 1920s, Surrealists argued everyone could use automata to access a wealth of pre-conscious imagery, bypassing business as usual. Anyone who could be killed by mortar or Spanish flu could also nail a stuffed monkey to a board or sign a urinal. As World War One exhausted itself, the Dadaists thought that reacting against existing culture was enough. Francis Picarbia (1920) Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Renoir, Portrait of RembrandtĮarlier twentieth century avant-gardes wanted everyone to be an artist. ![]()
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