What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
Robert HughesTags: art confidence idealism metaphor culture irony 1980 postmodernism ebullience david-foster-wallace avant-garde meta-modernism post-ironic shia-lebouf
A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.
Ramsay BurtTags: gender dance ballet progressive avant-garde experimental
The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.
Rosalyn DrexlerTags: theater stage surrealism instructional avant-garde
[he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?
Carlton Mellick IIITags: avant-garde bizzaro
The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.
Carlton Mellick IIITags: avant-garde bizzaro
[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis.
Grant H. KesterTags: art meaning assumptions fallacy tradition modernism models art-history trope avant-garde
The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.
David MitchellTags: humor music avant-garde
There is nothing more profitable than the extreme avant garde.
Silvia HartmannTags: avant-garde profitable
Everyone knew what the night would bring lots of D and A plenty of T and A
Saira ViolaTags: smart avant-garde experimental hip-sexy
I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves. You were right, Jack. This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.
Don DeLilloTags: consumerism avant-garde
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