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Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Art - Art Theory; General; grade: 8;5 ; University of Amsterdam (Cultural Analysis); course: Art as an Institute and its Critique; language: English; abstract: 1.IntroductionThe avant-garde intends the abolition of autonomous art by which it means that art is to be integrated into the praxis of life. At least this is what Peter Buuml;rger states in his groundbreaking book Theory of the Avant-garde. In the book Buuml;rger gives some examples that shall acknowledge and prove his theory; e.g. Reneacute; Magritte or Marcel Duchamp. It is clear that such examples need to stay eclectic in order to fit the developed theory. In the following Buuml;rgerrsquo;s text will be put to the acid test by analysing some avant-garde works through the eyes of Peter Buuml;rger; and it shall be examined if specific; programmatic avant-gardist works go well with his theory. The manifestos by the (first) Dadaists in Zuuml;rich seem to be extremely useful for this attempt. Their ldquo;productionsrdquo; havenrsquo;t been canonised yet and have served as an example for further Dadaistic productions in Germany; the USA; the Netherlands; Romania; Georgia; Poland etc. They (excessively) produced manifestos and declared their ideals and plans. However; these declarations always remain a bit opaque as they avoid clear statements and explicitly write absurd. In their works the Dadas often make statements and shortly afterwards reject them again. Tristan Tzararsquo;s manifestos are great examples of this kind of text; therefore this paper focuses on his writings but will consider manifestos by Walter Serner; thoughts by Marcel Janco or Hugo Ball as well. Can Theory of the Avant-garde be a key to excerpt meaning from the Dadaistic text production; or do the manifestos go beyond Buuml;rgerrsquo;s theory; or even prove him wrong?