Word: gardism
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...Cubism--a splendidly witty reference to the dilemma American artists found themselves in when they looked across the Atlantic to Paris. How could you get out of the colonial bind--the sense of being condemned, in the name of avant-garde aspiration, to imitate the outer forms of avant-gardism, to keep doing the new at second hand? This was the problem for South American modernists too--and in spades. The whole relation of South American art to Europe and then, after 1950 or so, to North America, was thorny and merciless to the "provincials...