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
2006-01-01
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Editions Rodopi B.V.
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830 gr
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235 mm
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155 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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David Hopkins is Professor of Art History at the University of Glasgow. His previous publications include After Modern Art 1945-2000 (2000), Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction (2004) and Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared ( 1998 ) all published by Oxford University Presss.