Avant-garde

Summary

Dominique Pagani takes up the avant-garde in two contexts. In a 2020 philosophy session, he links it to Hegel, whom he presents as the first to theorize it, even before its works appeared1. In his view, the avant-garde exists from the very first emergence of Romanticism: art keeps progressing, but it has lost the possibility of representing the absolute2. In 2022, in his broadcasts on music, he looks at it from a historical point of view. After the Vienna School, art music commits itself to avant-gardes that move away from the general public3, whereas jazz holds both the popular bass and the most sophisticated avant-garde4. Speaking of Bartók, he distinguishes two paths, possibly contradictory, by which post-Impressionist music becomes truly avant-garde. One returns to ancient sounds from elsewhere. The other takes a step forward in the direction set by the music that came immediately before it56.

1. 1#11 Return to the logics of the subject21 Jun 2020 · 1:16:46
2. 2#11 Return to the logics of the subject21 Jun 2020 · 1:38:08
3. 3John Lewis: classical or jazz?29 Jun 2022 · 0:42
4. 4John Lewis: classical or jazz?29 Jun 2022 · 3:43
5. 5Bartók: the unheard-of sound13 Jul 2022 · 1:37
6. 6Bartók: the unheard-of sound13 Jul 2022 · 3:37

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.