Avant-garde

Godwin, Joscelyn. Harmonies of heaven and earth the spiritual dimensions of music from antiquity to the avant-garde. Inner Traditions International Ltd, 1995. ISBN 0892815000... 

Szulakowska, Urszula. Alchemy and the avant-garde some contemporary Australian artists. CaudaPavonis 7, no. 2 (Fall 1988) 1-9. 

Moffitt, John F. Alchemist of the avante-garde the case of Marcel Duchamp. Albany (NY) State Univ of New York P, 2003. xiii, 468 p ISBN 0-7914-5709-5... 

Harris, Derek, ed.The Spanish avant-garde. Manchester, New York Manchester Univ P, 1995. xi, 223 p. 

Which of the following provides the best definition of the term avant-garde as the author intends it in the passage ... 

The connection of the Soviet avant-garde with European object art today also implicitly poses the question as to which fragments of the constructive tradition in the West might also be part of this project. If we look at Kosmatschof s sculptures of the past years, we can, in fact, see connections which show that his oeuvre is also rooted in non-Soviet discourse. From the monumental steel object Konstrukta , which Kosmatschof built in Aschchabad in Turkmenistan in 1974/1975, to the designs and realized projects of today, which are presented in this publication, there has been a line of development that has brought several shifts in style as well as in content. 

In Konstrukta , Kosmatschof s method of operation was still very close to the role models of the early Soviet avant-garde. If we recall the fragile, apparatuslike objects of Alexander Rodchenko (for example the space constructions of 1918-1920, which were exhibited in 2006 at the MAK in Vienna), or... 

In looking at the universal theme of natural resources, whose potential can be demonstrated in technologically charged artistic installations, we can see a connection between the present day and the historical avant-garde - despite the hundred-... 

The abstract picture of the ideal avant-garde within... 

Art critic, art historian and art theorist, concentrates on issues of the relationship between contemporary art and the classical avant-garde and of the dialogue between contemporary art, science and philosophy. Head of the Experimental Programs Department of the State Center of Modern Art (NCCA), Moscow... 

Art, the expression of society, manifests, in its highest soaring, the most advanced social tendencies it is the forerunner and the revealer. Therefore, to know whether art worthily fulfills its proper mission as initiator, where the artist becomes truly of the avant-garde, one must know where Humanity is itself going, know what the destiny of the human race actually is.. .. Along with the hymn to happiness [the advanced artist pictures] the dolorous and despairing ode. To lay bare with a brutal brush all the brutalities, all the filth, which are the base of our society, this is the mission of the avant-garde artist. ... 

The historical situation of the Esoteric Tradition visibly infected all levels of Occidental modernism. The late James Webb (1946-1980) was the most accomplished historian of the Esoteric Tradition and the author of a monumental study collectively called The Age of the Irrational. As he repeatedly emphasized. Occultism has always been of particular interest to the modern artist. Arising from his sense of bohemian and/or avant-garde alienation, the eventual result, stated Webb, was for the artist to take on the more positive stance of the elect race. As Webb further recognized, this haughty pose is a functional parallel to the perennial need among Occultists to appear especially alert. Webb concluded. 

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