Word: avant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three other capitals of modernist culture: New York, Berlin and Moscow. The project made a lame start with the Paris-New York show in 1977, a patchy curatorial bungle. It finds its feet with this exhibition. The theme is large: nothing less than the whole panorama of the German avant-garde in its most spiritual, subversive or idealist aspects, from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II to that of Adolf Hitler. It embraces film, photog- raphy, architecture, industrial design and printing, as well as sculpture and painting, and it covers an extraordinary ferment of ideas and images. In short...
...tradition, which almost totally dominates German painting," Grosz wrote to a friend as the first World War was ending. "We have to finish with these weary painters of sentiment and vagueness, Cezanne, Picasso and the rest." Certainly, for the first 20 years of the century, the current between the avant-garde of the two capitals ran only from Paris to Berlin. As the German art historian Werner Spies remarks in the catalogue to "Paris-Berlin," the visits made by Henri Matisse or Robert Delaunay to Germany were "marked by a condescending paternalism," in contrast to the tentative and supplicatory visits...
...There are hundreds of black Gospel singers in churches around here where one can go for beautiful Gospel style," he said. "In the Shawmut area there are juke boxes with Syrian music, and right here at Harvard there are some brilliant composers of avant garde...any differing styles of music will do," he added...
...There are hundreds of black Gospel singers in churches around here where one can go for beautiful Gospel style," he said. "In the Shawmut area there are juke boxes with Syrian music, and right here at Harvard there are some brilliant composers of avant garde...any differing styles of music will do," he added...
...Pacific Western Distributing Corp. of San Francisco came out with a mass-produced isobutyl nitrite product called Rush. As a result of aggressive marketing, poppers quickly spread to avant-garde heterosexuals. Marketed under such trade names as Bullet, Crypt and Locker Room, isobutyl nitrite is sold openly in some record stores, boutiques and pornographic bookstores. Poppers sell for $4 to $6 for about half an ounce, enough for up to 15 sniffs. According to Pacific Western Chairman W. Jay Freezer, retail sales totaled some $20 million last year; he forecasts a 15% to 20% increase this year...