End of vanguards: aestheticization of life and generalization of aesthrticization

Abstract

This article discusses the relationship between the end of the vanguards and the end of art. The proposals of the vanguards, which correspond to the period of artistic modernity, aimed to transform the world through art. In the ‘60s and ‘70s the vanguardists proposal became in random games of signs that lost their capacity to transform and criticize. Then it discusses the consequences of these facts, in other words, which space art occupies in the called “post-modern” world: if it no more relates to a reference, is it doomed to remain in vacuum? Or can we associate it with neo-conservatism? The differences between the proposals of the heroic vanguards and the contemporary art are emphasized so that it release the post-vanguardist art is released from the vanguards engagement and what may be this art on current conditions can be understood.