Word: avant
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...Face lets Updike imagine his way into the enigmas of that great moment in the 1950s when American art conquered the world. By way of Hope's memories, he lights upon Pollock's contemporaries--Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman--the anointed gladiators of the American avant-garde. The names are changed, but their vanities and treacheries and barroom intellectual brawls are pretty much as we know them. As for Hope, she resembles Pollock's actual wife, the steadfast Lee Krasner, though not in every detail, especially after McCoy's death, when she marries Guy Holloway...
...During a trip to Europe a few years before, he was converted to the work of Picasso and Braque. (He was soon well enough established as a painter that six of his canvases were included in the Armory Show of 1913, which brought the work of the European avant-garde to America, along with a lasting public uproar over whether modern art was art.) What Sheeler gradually realized was that the camera could find in the real world the fractured spaces of Picasso and the flat planes of Matisse. It could produce a picture of the side of a barn...
Without these two measures, news photographers, avant-garde and unscrupulous alike, will continue to be able to pass their posed photos under the radar of journalistic-integrity policies, by a fault as much the system’s as their...
...also a Crimson editor, figuring out the central theme of his play took a couple months of struggle. He writes in an e-mail, “I got to the point where all I could think about was just writing the damn thing. I wanted to explore avant garde theater and dance...but in the end, I was mostly inspired by the crazy process of making the play itself. I saw that the whole enterprise of meta, avant garde, absurdist art is pretty funny, I think, and so is having an actor in an bunny costume. The inspiration...
Where others see a bell tower, Austin S. Guest '03-'05 sees the perfect site for avant-garde theater...