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The Italian Collective Project In Literature, Architecture and the Visual Arts, 1968–77
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Sabrina Ovan
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 394–408, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad051
Published: 13 October 2023
... on the narratives and the experiences of avant-garde groups, marginal communities, labour organizers and political activist circles gained widespread popularity. Among these, two significant literary and political reviews, I Quindici and Contropiano, played a pivotal role in these movements. My...
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Dada in the Underground: linkeck and West Berlin’s Anti-Authoritarian Newspapers, 1968–69
Mererid Puw Davies
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 345–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad043
Published: 11 October 2023
... considers key resonances between linkeck and earlier twentieth-century (anti-)artistic avant-gardes, notably Dada. The Federal Republic of Germany 1960s protest movements West Berlin linkeck anti-authoritarianism periodicals alternative newspapers underground culture anarchism...
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Frank Barr: Avant-Garde Designer in Mid-Century Chicago?
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Paul F Gehl
Journal of Design History, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 361–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad010
Published: 21 June 2023
... contemporaries frame advertising as “advance guard” or “avant-garde?” 3 Who merits inclusion in such a grouping? All but one of the nine men in this show eventually attained canonical status as modernist designers outside Chicago. 4 But should we imagine that resulted from their avant...
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Toward A Second Theology: Avant-Garde Art and Theopolitics
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Petra Carlsson Redell
Literature and Theology, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 40–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fraa035
Published: 24 March 2021
.... In order to find sources to further renegotiate the relationship between the material, the spiritual and the political, the article turns East to Russian avant-garde artists and thinkers Liubov Popova (1889–1924) and Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), discussed in relation to Walter Benjamin (1892–1940...
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Nurturing Attentional Skills in Acute Pediatric Psychiatry Through Avant-Garde Musical Interventions
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Enrico Curreri
Music Therapy Perspectives, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2018, Pages 243–256, https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/mix022
Published: 01 February 2018
.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract This case report details how avant-garde musical interventions helped to nurture the attentional skills of eight pediatric patients admitted to a small 12-bed acute psychiatric unit. The music therapist encountered two major obstacles while working on the small psychiatric unit. First...
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Contemporary German Poetry and Avant-Garde Reappraisals in the Work of Thomas Kling and Oskar Pastior
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Arina Rotaru
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 364–378, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqr035
Published: 01 October 2011
...–2005), whose works testify to the endurance of literary legacies ranging from Antiquity to the pre- and post-War global avant-gardes. The two poets are analysed here side by side and situated in a common context of influence and reception. Emphasis is given to the ways in which the two authors use...
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What Becomes of Things on Film on Film: Adaptation in Owen Land (George Landow)
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Adaptation, Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2009, Pages 161–176, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/app007
Published: 27 July 2009
... because he is more classically implicated in the relations of source and adaptation than other avant-garde filmmakers but also because he encourages that implication as a way of investigating dominant aspects of avant-garde practice that we would not immediately understand as adaptations at all...
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Mary Wigman and German Modern Dance: A Modernist Witch?
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Jiyun Song
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 43, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 427–437, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqm062
Published: 01 October 2007
... often participated in their performance evenings, Wigman was not interested in their avant-garde ideal of breaking down the meaning and boundaries of art. On the contrary, she was in search of a new art to propagate her religion, not destroy it. On this evening, she used expressionistic “Gebrauchsmusik...
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Alex Houen
Published: 01 December 2011
... of Contemporary Realism modernism realism Spinoza Doležel Lubomir fictionality Kripke Saul possible worlds aesthetics affects Ronen Ruth sympathy 1960s avant garde Cage John Calinescu Matei consumerism Futurism Huyssen Andreas Poggioli Renato Pop Art Pynchon Thomas Bernstein Charles...
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Published online: 19 January 2012
Published in print: 01 December 2011
... aesthetic force with which to combat or reorient the effects of social power on people. Potentialism is not a literary movement, Houen emphasizes, so much as a novel concept of literary practice—a concept that stands as a refreshing alternative to notions of ‘postmodernism’ and the ‘postmodern avant‐garde’....
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1 Hooker and the Jacobeans
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Michael Brydon
Published: 01 November 2006
.... William Covell’s defence of Hooker took the opportunity to remould him further in support of a growing distaste for the earlier style of the English reformation. Whilst there was still a desire to claim Hooker as a Reformed figure, he was increasingly favoured by avant-garde churchmen...
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Published: 24 January 2019
...Through the Looking Glass: John Cage and Avant-Garde Film . Richard H. Brown, Oxford University Press (2019). © Richard H. Brown. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190628079.003.0004 This chapter centers on the relationships between acoustic projection and cinematic space. I start with Cage’s...
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The ‘Little Magazine’ as Weapon: BLAST (1914–15)
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Andrzej Gasiorek
Published: 30 May 2013
...This chapter discusses the history of the ‘little magazine’ BLAST , which has divided readers since its inception in July 1914. While some of those who first encountered BLAST considered it a vibrant contribution to avant-garde painting and writing, others derided...
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The Ghost of a Rose
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Jane Stevenson
Published: 11 January 2018
...The ballet brings together many of the threads pursued in this book: patronage, queerness, the Sitwells, interactions between fine art, design, and popular culture. Because Diaghilev made ballet a fashion, his public found themselves exposed to avant-garde music and art which would otherwise have...
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Published: 01 April 2009
...The artistic avant‐garde, many of its theorists seem to agree, is a culture of subversion. Yet recent Anglo‐American musicology has tended to emphasise avant‐garde music's disavowal of issues of social and political concern. This volume assesses the intense engagement of many avant‐garde musicians...
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Published: 01 April 2009
...This chapter focuses on a singular event in the musical life of late‐1960s Amsterdam: a “political‐demonstrative experimental concert”, which brought together many of the leading lights of the Dutch musical avant‐garde, including Louis Andriessen and Peter Schat. At the time of the concert, its...
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4 Aesthetic Theories and Revolutionary Practice: Nikolaus A. Huber and Clytus Gottwald in Dissent
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Beate Kutschke
Published: 01 April 2009
...The West‐German avant‐garde music scene of the early 1970s—the period in which the spirit of the New Left manifested itself most intensively in the musical field—was especially marked by the numerous discussions and debates about the nature of political music, its perfection and failures, conducted...
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Published: 01 April 2009
...The Ivy‐League pedigrees of many of the Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) composers seems to contradict their anarchic‐Marxist musical activities in Rome during the late 1960s. Influenced by the live‐electronic improvisations of John Cage and David Tudor, the Italian network of avant‐garde composers...
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6 The Problem of the Political in Steve Reich's Come Out
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Sumanth Gopinath
Published: 01 April 2009
... creation, which arise in no small part from the avant‐garde compositional processes to which Hamm's voice is subjected, but the chapter closes by suggesting that the piece nonetheless contains a powerful contemporary relevance. Baldwin James Baraka Amiri LeRoi Jones Davis Ossie Ginsberg Allen Hamm...
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10 After the October Revolution: The Jazz Avant‐garde in New York, 1964–65
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Bernard Gendron
Published: 01 April 2009
...This chapter analyses the resurgence of the jazz avant‐garde in New York in the mid‐1960s, focusing in particular upon musicians' negotiation of competing aesthetic, social, and economic imperatives. Through a detailed investigation of shifting patterns of reception in the jazz press, attention...
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