Practice question · Select all that apply
Which forces drove the early-twentieth-century avant-gardes?
Hints
- The drivers were a technology, an upheaval and a theory of mind.
- One listed option is a material shortage that never occurred.
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- B. Photography had taken over likeness and documentation
- C. Freud claimed the mind is not transparent to itself
- D. Industrial modernity shattered the scale and pace of experience
Why
A machine, a world, and a theory of mind, plus a war that killed the story about reason and progress. The avant-gardes are a response to reality changing, not a fashion cycle.
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