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... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...—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...

...; 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...

...” 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...

...). 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... . (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...

... . 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...

... 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...