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In her work \u201cSome Memories of Pre-Dada: Picabia and Duchamp\u201d Gabrielle Buffet reflects upon her initial foray into abstract painting with Picabia. \u201cIt was a strange period of gestation and adaptation,\u201d she writes, \u201cnew works brought nothing but doubt, dismay, anxiety, until minds could adjust themselves and corresponding new reflexes could be created\u201d (256). This description of the sensory overload created by avant-garde art could provide a broad definition of the avant-garde process itself, not only for painting, but in writing and other artistic forms as well. As Buffet wrote in an earlier passage of the chapter, the avant-garde unraveled the self-assured standards of value, form, and positivism that underlay much of nineteenth century art, subjecting it to endless questioning and ironic distortions. This sensory experience that \u201cbrought nothing but doubt\u2026 until minds could adjust themselves\u201d resonates in the disparate avant-garde methods practiced by Buffet and Picabia\u2019s contemporaries, who \u2013 as different as their approaches and work may have been \u2013 all shared a goal of subverting and destabilizing norms and sensibilities while creating art that brought attention to the process of its own \u201cstrange period of gestation and adaptation.\u201d By the artists\u2019 design, the work exposing the means of its creation, a dimension formerly kept hidden by \u201cthe old myths of art\u201d which Duchamp and Picabia opposed so vehemently\u201d (257).<\/p>\n
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