{"id":508,"date":"2014-10-23T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=508"},"modified":"2014-10-23T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:26:48","slug":"charles-hugh-smith-whats-avant-garde-now-social-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"charles hugh smith-What&#8217;s Avant-Garde Now? Social Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/blogoct14\/social-innovation10-14.html\">charles hugh smith-What&#8217;s Avant-Garde Now? Social Innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"><i>What qualifies as true avant-garde? Degrowth qualifies&#8211;and very little else.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In the 20th century, avant-garde was a term primarily reserved for the arts:<\/b>\u00a0fine arts, music, performance and literature. Avant garde&#8211;literally\u00a0<i>fore-guard or vanguard<\/i>&#8212; challenges the conventions of Status Quo measures of beauty and departs from traditional forms and conceptions of value.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">In many cases, the departure is designed to shock traditionalists by flaunting accepted norms; by traditional standards, avant-garde art is ugly or disturbing, avant-garde music is atonal and unmelodic, avant-garde theatre flouts conventional narrative structure and avant-garde social movements upend traditional morals and values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"><b>Virtually all design and art fields have been continually disrupted by avant-garde movements, to the point that the conventional consumerist economy now depends on avant-garde<\/b>\u00a0(or perhaps quasi-avant-garde) to create &#8220;the new&#8221; that can be sold at a profit to differentiate the\u00a0<i>in-crowd<\/i>\u00a0from those (<i>sigh&#8211;how sad<\/i>) left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>charles hugh smith-What&#8217;s Avant-Garde Now? Social Innovation. What qualifies as true avant-garde? Degrowth qualifies&#8211;and very little else. In the 20th century, avant-garde was a term primarily reserved for the arts:\u00a0fine arts, music, performance and literature. Avant garde&#8211;literally\u00a0fore-guard or vanguard&#8212; challenges the conventions of Status Quo measures of beauty and departs from traditional forms and conceptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,44,203],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-arts","tag-avant-garde","tag-degrowth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}