What makes avant-garde avant-garde?

[pynchonoid]

Sorry, I meant to trim more of the original message to
which this was a response:

I see they're still working the bugs out of that
automatic language translation software. I wonder
what this might have said in its original language
version:


> > I think the problem is that innovation/invention
> do
> > not necessarily denote a
> > "movement" or "revolution" which was a very
> > conscious aspect of the French and
> > Russian Avant Gardes.  It has something to do with
> > the defiance of an accepted
> > mode, and as such takes on the camaraderie of an
> > army with its own acceptable
> > non-conformity (which really is funny because it
> > creates its own new
> > conformity).  This is very different than a
> > "zeitgeist" which is usually only
> > recognizable after it has become a common mode,
> but
> > begins with a "new"
> > aesthetic.  Some would argue that the present
> > zeitgeist is "Postmodernism"
> > which is by no means a "movement."
> > 
> > David Morris


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