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The Romanian Avant-Garde
03/1999
The avant-garde has decisively changed, at least in the 20th century, the way of thinking art and creation on the whole. Art sees its sacred aura being removed. It finds itself deprived of mystery, closer to the industries of this century and their productive logic than to consecrated knowledge. Since their inception, new movements equip themselves with watchwords sprung from spontaneity - such as "thinking is done in the mouth", by Tzara, or from an expressed will to democratize creation: "Poetry shall be made by all, not by one." Lautréamont's sentence would accompany the avant-garde all along its adventurous trail.
Petre RĂILEANU
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