@inproceedings{d610ad0d957f4e34b70930252401a3c0,
title = "Resistance to the Avant-Garde; Criticism of the Avant-Garde in Dutch Literary Periodicals",
abstract = "During the first decades of the 20th century there is a thorough awareness in the Netherlands of international developments in the avant-garde, but it is generally regarded with disdain or even derision. Resistance against the avant-garde is the attitude most generally taken. In this contribution we wish to offer an explanation for that resistance, without falling back on vague generalizations, such as the following: New developments only reached the Netherlands fifty years later, only with the Fifties Movement did the Netherlands start to play a part in the avant-garde. For the Netherlands were not later at all, as we now know. There is general agreement among literary historians that the historic avant-garde in the Netherlands was in step with that in other countries (The Style group, including Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan), but it was also a rather marginal phenomenon.",
keywords = "Specialized histories (international relations, law), Literary theory, analysis and criticism, Culturele activiteiten, Overig maatschappelijk onderzoek",
author = "{van den Akker}, W.J.",
year = "2007",
language = "Undefined/Unknown",
series = "Avant-garde critical studies",
publisher = "Rodopi",
pages = "289--312",
editor = "K. Beekman and {de Vries}, J.",
booktitle = "Avant-Garde and Criticism",
address = "Netherlands",
}