It's a somewhat avant-garde idea.
Asger Jorn, whom I quote with the same mathematical recurrence that Grandpa Simpson quotes Thoreau, has explained in detail how the avant garde thought of any generation becomes norm for the ones that come after and how new communicative ideas come to be taken for granted by successive generations.
Moholy was born to the comfortable middle class in southern Hungary in 1895 and backed into art when he took up sketching as a soldier during World War I, building on already strong interests in avant-garde poetry and revolutionary thought.
Ms. Deren is a featured filmmaker in the "The Color of Ritual, the Color of Thought: Women Avant-Garde Filmmakers in America, 1930-2000," a series at the Whitney Museum of American Art from Thursday to July 30 and from Sept. 5 to Oct. 1.
"In London now, psychogeography leads not so much to avant-garde architecture" – as the school of thought's 1960s French orginators intended – "as to gentrification".
"In London now, psychogeography leads not so much to avant-garde architecture" – as the school of thought's 1960s French orginators intended – "as to gentrification". I don't think even the coolest estate agents are going to be handing out Keiller texts just yet.
"There came a time when John [Lennon], because of his association with Yoko and the avant garde, became thought of as the one who turned us all on to that.
There's no easy answer, but I can honestly say that here in New York I'd rather have had experimental playwright Mac Wellman's thoughts about the avant-garde company Radiohole's recent show, Whatever, Heaven Allows than the fatuous cocktail chatter that Ben Brantley passed off as a review last month.
The productions I enjoy range from classics to avant-garde, from the Broadway genre to thought-provoking to just plain fun.
Artists who revolutionized the stage by transforming it into a venue for avant-garde social, political, psychological, artistic and metaphysical thought, creating the theatre we know today.
He had no second thoughts about working with the putative jazz avant-garde, or with hip-hop; he dived right in.
