Avant-gardes shared an anti-bourgeois stance against market culture

Evidence

In the space so bounded, a wide variety of artistic innovations could explode — symbolism, imagism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism: some quarrying classical memory or patrician styles, others drawn to a poetics of the new machinery, yet others fired by visions of social upheaval; but none at peace with the market as the organizing principle of a modern culture — in that sense, virtually without exception anti-bourgeois. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 217

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The avant-garde sought to dissolve art into life praxis, not integrate art into it; Avant-garde art depends on concrete political conditions, not just aesthetic logic — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 243; The avant-garde attacked art’s institutional status, not merely artistic styles — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 233 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernism’s antibourgeois stance depended on the bourgeoisie it opposed. #expands (0.85)
• Avant-garde norm-rejection and capitalist market expansion converged on dismantling social norms #expands (0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 853
• Modernist art criticizes capitalism by mirroring commodity form rather than denying it #expands (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 230
• Conceptual art subverted the market system that promoted avant-garde objects #qualifies (0.75) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1601