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Come nel romantic<strong>is</strong>mo, anche nel modern<strong>is</strong>mo scopo dell’art<strong>is</strong>ta è produrre opere d’arte<br />

originali, uniche: l’arte per l’arte. L’art<strong>is</strong>ta è un individuo che produce opere uniche e originali,<br />

dalle quali scatur<strong>is</strong>ce l’aura che lo contradd<strong>is</strong>tingue 382 . Nella transizione operata attraverso le<br />

avanguardie, il passo successivo nell’evoluzione dell’arte è la nascita della cultura popolare, e<br />

quindi della Pop Art come genere codificato 383 . Il rapporto tra avanguardia e Pop Art è sottolineato<br />

dalla Oramus, che cita un passaggio illuminante in proposito di Andreas Huyssen:<br />

«”However, the original impetus to merge high art and popular culture – for example, say in<br />

Pop Art in the early 60s - … was indebted to the h<strong>is</strong>torical avant-garde – art movements such as<br />

Dada, constructiv<strong>is</strong>m, and surreal<strong>is</strong>m – which had aimed, unsuccessfully, at freeing art from its<br />

esthetic<strong>is</strong>t ghetto and reintegrating art and life” (Huyssen 1986: 60).» 384<br />

Dunque, il fallimento dell’avanguardia nel ricongiungere arte e vita dà luogo tuttavia a un<br />

fenomeno come quello della Pop Art, che riesce nello scopo attraverso lo sfruttamento della<br />

dimensione iconica che caratterizza la società mass-mediatica in cui nasce ed opera.<br />

382 «<strong>The</strong> struggle to produce a work of art, a once and for all creation that could find a unique place in the market, had to<br />

be an individual effort, forged under competitive circumstances. Modern<strong>is</strong>t art has always been, therefore, what<br />

Benjamin calls ‘auratic art’, in the sense that the art<strong>is</strong>t had to assume an aura of creativity, of dedication to art for art’s<br />

sake, in order to produce a cultural object that would be original, unique, and hence eminently marketable at a<br />

monopoly price.» D. Harvey, op. cit., p. 22.<br />

383 «[…] certain avant-gardes – Dada<strong>is</strong>ts, early surreal<strong>is</strong>ts – tried to mobilize their aesthetic capacities to revolutionary<br />

ends by fusing their art into popular culture.» Ibid.<br />

384 D. Oramus, op. cit., pp. 62-63.<br />

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