The neo-avant-garde of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, is due for a thoroughgoing reassessment. This collection of essays represents the first full-scale attempt to deal with the concept from an interdisciplinary standpoint. A number of essays in this book concentrate on fine art, particularly painting and sculpture, thereby adding significantly to the growing art historical literature in the field, but a number of the contributions also focus on poetry, performance, theatre, film, architecture and music. Given that there are also major essays here dealing with geographical blindspots in current neo-avant-garde studies, with thematic issues such as artâs entanglement with gender, mass culture and politics, with key neo-avant-garde publications, and with the purely theoretical problems attaching to the theorisation of the topic, this collection offers a multi-dimensional approach to the subject which is noticeably lacking elsewhere. Taken together these essays represent a consolidated attempt at re-thinking the âcultural logicâ of the immediate post-World War II period.
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Preface
David HOPKINS: Introduction
I. Art and Life
David HOPKINS: âArtâ and âLifeâ⌠and Death: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Morris and Neo-Avant-Garde Irony
Mark SILVERBERG: Working in the Gap between Art and Life: Frank OâHaraâs Process Poems
Anna DEZEUZE: âNeo-Dadaâ, âJunk Aestheticâ and Spectator Participation
II. Across Art Forms
GĂźnter BERGHAUS: Neo-Dada Performance Art
Anna Katharina SCHAFFNER: Inheriting the Avant-Garde: On the Reconciliation of Tradition and Invention in Concrete Poetry
R. Bruce ELDER: The Structural Film: Ruptures and Continuities in Avant-Garde Art
III. Centres/Peripheries
Tania ĂRUM: Minimal Requirements of the Post-War Avant-Garde of the 1960s
Claus CLĂVER: The âRupturaâ Proclaimed by Brazilâs Self-Styled âVanguardasâ of the Fifties
Richard J. WILLIAMS: Towards an Aesthetics of Poverty: Architecture and the Neo-Avant-Garde in 1960s Brazil
IV. âHighâ/âLowâ
Keith ASPLEY: The Avant-Garde, Neo-Avant-Garde and Radio: Robert Desnos and Philippe Soupault
Ben HIGHMORE: Home Furnishings: Richard Hamilton, Domesticity and âPost-Avant-Gardismâ
V. Body/Gender
Katharine SWARBRICK: Gender Trouble? Body Trouble? Reinvestigating the Work of Marisol Escobar Gavin BUTT: Joe Brainardâs Queer Seriousness, or, How to Make Fun out of the Avant-Garde
VI. Discourse/Politics
Michael CORRIS: The Dialogical Imagination: The Conversational Aesthetic of Conceptual Art
Frances STRACEY: Destruktion RSG-6: Towards a Situationist Avant-Garde Today
VII. Dissemination
Friedrich W. BLOCK: âMovensâ or The Aesthetics of Movement as a Programmatic Perspective
Martin PUCHNER: The Avant-Garde is Dead; Long Live the Avant-Garde!
VIII. Theoretical Reflections
Hubert F. VAN DEN BERG: Towards a âReconciliation of Man and Natureâ. Nature and Ecology in the Aesthetic Avant-Garde of the Twentieth Century
Martin J. C. DIXON : âBlackbirds rise from a field...â: Production, Structure and Obedience in John Cageâs Lecture on Nothing
Dafydd JONES: âJeder kann Dadaâ: The Repetition, Trauma and Deferred Completion of the Avant-Garde
List of Illustrations
Abstracts
Contributors
Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789042021259
Publisert
2006-01-01
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
830 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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