Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In some countries the result has even been an academicism in reverse, the academicism of the “avant-garde” - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored. Mircea Eliade
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In some countries, it has even been an academicism in reverse. The academicism of the “avant-garde” - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored. In other words, the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible a work of art is, the more it will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. Avant-garde art is characterized by its lack of compromise with current standards of taste and by its rejection of any form of authority external to itself.

Source: Myth And Reality

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