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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2009
... underestimated by art historians in terms of its impact on the changes in local artistic production, vis-à-vis the historical avant-garde and abstraction. In the introduction to this provocative book, Cohen argues that “there were significant developments in wartime life that the memory of the revolution should...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Visual Studies .” X-Tra Online , Spring , x-traonline.org/article/from-organization-to-network-mits-center-for-advanced-visual-studies/ . Roberts John . 2015 . Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde . London : Verso . Shalal Andrea . 2014 . “ Pentagon, Suppliers Must Change...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 14–23.
Published: 01 March 2020
... have to create something unique, something new. We have both of those in us, and they’re in conflict. TPF: You’re criticizing the avant-garde, but your thoughts are daring, pushing the envelope of the avant-garde. Can you address the paradox here? MLU: Being able to write that paragraph...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 246–248.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the historical avant-garde, while also leading a charge to dismantle the state in terms that its new ideologues like Steve Bannon claim to borrow from Vladimir Lenin. In this context, earnest artworks speaking truth to power are brushed aside by post-truth cynicism, while satirical interventions also fall flat...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 July 2014
... was imagined as a world of collective values ( Clark 1999 : 9). This is supported by histories of modernist planning and architecture ( Hatherley 2008 ). Avant-gardes relied on a privileged awareness of future social directions, that is, as leaders of society to a new dawn. Meanwhile, art relied increasingly...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of the historical avant-garde. The very identity of aesthetic images was in part linked to capacity for making strange (Shklovsky 1917) . 2 In our current, profoundly disturbed, cultural condition, no effect of documentation can register upon our numbed and brutalized sensibility. The “real” and the “symbolic...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 301–314.
Published: 01 November 2015
...—well, what he himself called the comedy that doesn’t make you laugh. These are entirely avant-garde categories, then, which explain very well why Flaubert, a product, according to the literary histories, of a realist age, always seems in reality like an absolutely avant-garde writer. In other words...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 351–374.
Published: 01 November 2008
...; the demonstrations at the August 1968 Democrats’ Convention; and the demonstrations at the August 1972 Republicans’ Convention. © BERG 2008 PRINTED IN THE UK 2008 Allen Ginsberg Vietnam avant-garde counterculture media possibility Watergate In May 1963 the poet Allen Ginsberg began an extensive...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
...” avant-garde and the 1960s nascent postmodern avant-gard ist machine of art-world celebrity publicity? Or is such a critical distinction itself hopelessly idealized? The utopian globalist lineage in the visual arts that I have traced suggests, on the whole, that it is: spectacle and critique...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 294–296.
Published: 01 July 2023
...). But the value prerogative also includes the avant-garde, the radical and the ideologically or fundamentally creative, as the subsequent discussion of Allucquére Roseanne Stone's pathbreaking ACTLab suggests (177). This is the point at which the authors place the hybrid lab itself at the center of cultural...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 147–170.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of society’s understandings of itself as it changes. . . . They sometimes generate new ways of understanding the complexities of the human condition.” Protestors, then, are practitioners of the avant-garde, divided from their brethren at the vanguard of the art world by only a paper-thin margin. In coining...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 170–187.
Published: 01 July 2013
... indifference It is no coincidence that the musical thought of the author of Soundproof Room (2001) pivoted on the figure of John Cage. While at various points in his career he devoted reflections to the work of visionary avant-garde composers such as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, and Edgard Varèse...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... it and in a postmodern turn it was “rephrased” by Jean-François Lyotard as the ambiguous rationale of the avant-garde art that methodically shocks the bourgeoisie out of its tastes. Lyotard’s sublime still resonates in Sloterdijk’s notion of monstrosity when he merges aesthetics with politics ( Oosterling 1999 ). 9...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 261–287.
Published: 01 July 2023
... has been described as “a period of accelerated commercialization, of decolonization and—in the context of advanced aesthetic practice and thought—of considered reassessment of the effects and legacies of the modernist avant-garde” (Martin 2005 : 4). Modernity in this period was transformed by wartime...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
... a globally representative selection, with a good number hailing from nations that have developed historically outside the Western avant-garde and its devaluation of art made in the service of state, church, and class propaganda. With Lida Abdul from Afghanistan; Adel Abidin from Iraq; Diana Al-Hadid from...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 107–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of reality anew. The sublime not only opens a space for the artistic inquiry that Lyotard associates with the avant-garde (1984, app.; “Argumentation and Presentation,” 138) and thus for a kind of embracing of possibilities in artistic experimentation. It also “wages war” on the totality of technoscience...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... The discovery of a bone flute from the deep past and the launch of the Golden Record aboard the Voyager satellites into the far future can be read as experiments in such posthumous survival. These sonic moments of survival and projection help frame aspects of sonic cultures, often identified by avant-garde...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . (1969) 1998 . Signs and Meaning in the Cinema . London : British Film Institute . Wollen Peter . 1975a . “ ‘Ontology’ and ‘Materialism’ in Film .” Screen 17 , no. 1 : 7 – 23 . Wollen Peter . 1975b . “ The Two Avant Gardes .” Studio International 190 , no. 978 : 171...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
... . The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995 . New York : Berghahn . Owen Jonathan . 2014 . “ From Buñuel to the Barbarogenius: Surrealist and Avant-Garde Traditions in the Films of Dušan Makavejev .” Studies in Eastern European Cinema 5 , no. 1 : 3 – 15...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to classical verse was a rupture. Barry Katz observes that the language of resistance poets increasingly departed from that of the avant-garde as “their use of the classical vocabulary, paraphernalia, and rituals of love” became the “artistic-political a priori of their work” (1982: 123). Paradoxically...