TY - JOUR
AU - Harskamp, J. T.
AB - CONTEMPORANEITY, MODERNISM, AVANT-GARDE J. T. Harskamp ON E OF the primary assumptions in the study of history is that every pheno- menon has antecedents which in turn have antecedents; that it never originates out of nothing and that exact repetition of phenomena is therefore impossible. In short, all historic events possess individuality or uniqueness •while occurring in an interconnected continuum. The difference in literary or art studies and historical research is that the latter deals with documents, while the former is involved with monuments. However, pure originality in art does not exist. A work of art is never isolated from other works and an artist does not work in absolute solitude. Within the artist there goes on a constant confrontation between his individual experiences and the art created by others. Artistic tradition always intervenes in the process of creation. Any artist is predetermined by his predecessors and contemporaries in the sense that he is inextricably connected with them and prolongs or reacts against their work. He cannot ignore what preceded him, yet he cannot repeat it; he must go further, search for different directions and detach himself from what has been done before him. Every work of art is 
TI - CONTEMPORANEITY, MODERNISM, AVANT-GARDE
JF - The British Journal of Aesthetics
DO - 10.1093/bjaesthetics/20.3.204
DA - 1980-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/contemporaneity-modernism-avant-garde-HHSSuRsRDu
SP - 204
EP - 214
VL - 20
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -