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 art’s 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 ‘cultural logic’ of the immediate post-World War II period.
                                
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                                  Preface
David HOPKINS: Introduction 
I. Art and Life
David HOPKINS: ‘Art’ and ‘Life’… and Death: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Morris and Neo-Avant-Garde Irony
Mark SILVERBERG: Working in the Gap between Art and Life: Frank O’Hara’s Process Poems
Anna DEZEUZE: ‘Neo-Dada’, ‘Junk Aesthetic’ and Spectator Participation
II. Across Art Forms
Günter 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 ØRUM: Minimal Requirements of the Post-War Avant-Garde of the 1960s
Claus CLÜVER: The “Ruptura” Proclaimed by Brazil’s Self-Styled “Vanguardas” of the Fifties
Richard J. WILLIAMS: Towards an Aesthetics of Poverty: Architecture and the Neo-Avant-Garde in 1960s Brazil
IV. ‘High’/’Low’
Keith ASPLEY: The Avant-Garde, Neo-Avant-Garde and Radio: Robert Desnos and Philippe Soupault
Ben HIGHMORE: Home Furnishings: Richard Hamilton, Domesticity and ‘Post-Avant-Gardism’
V. Body/Gender
Katharine SWARBRICK: Gender Trouble? Body Trouble? Reinvestigating the Work of Marisol Escobar Gavin BUTT: Joe Brainard’s 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: “Movens” 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 “Reconciliation of Man and Nature”. Nature and Ecology in the Aesthetic Avant-Garde of the Twentieth Century
Martin J. C. DIXON : “Blackbirds rise from a field...”: Production, Structure and Obedience in John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing
Dafydd JONES: “Jeder kann Dada”: The Repetition, Trauma and Deferred Completion of the Avant-Garde
List of Illustrations
Abstracts
Contributors	
Index
                                
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ISBN
                    
            9789042021259
      
                  Publisert
                     2006 
                  Utgiver
                    Brill; Editions Rodopi B.V.
                  Vekt
                     830 gr
                  Høyde
                     235 mm
                  Bredde
                     155 mm
                  Dybde
                     31 mm
                  Aldersnivå
                     G, 01
                  Språk
                    
  Product language
              Engelsk
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