Word: avant
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...time, General Motors heir Stewart Mott drove a Volkswagen. A self-described "avant-garde philanthropist," Mott lived briefly on a Chinese junk, publicized his sexual conquests and cultivated a farm--replete with compost pile and chicken coop--atop his Manhattan penthouse. Yet these eccentricities didn't obscure his lavish contributions to a range of progressive causes, including abortion rights, arms control and the presidential bids of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern...
...around 30 and therefore born at the dawn of the country's economic liberalization. Very little of the book consists of applied graphics - the retail posters, brochures, advertisements, packaging and point-of-sale material that are the designer's daily duty. Instead, the work is mostly theoretical: experimental typography, avant-garde illustration and imaginary commissions. One can, to some degree, condone this editorial policy. Having spent the past few decades preoccupied with either communism, industry or cultural identity, Chinese designers deserve the freedom to simply play with form. But at the same time theirs is a practical art, meant...
Cassandra Wilson Loverly; out now Wilson, a distinctively dusky-voiced singer who can work jazz's boundaries with pop, avant-garde and blues, here assembles an album of standards echoing her breakthrough Blue Skies (1988). A few tracks are a little too standard, but more often a languid beat kicks in, and Wilson's subtle phrasing, filled with cunning pauses, casts its steamy spell...
...intuitive sense of theatrical composition. It turns the silhouette of a patrol setting off in the cold midnight sun of the Barents Sea into a grim ballet of war. The show's co-curator, Ernst Volland, says the photographer's aesthetic instincts may have been formed by Russian avant-garde revolutionary art of the 1920s - the paintings of Rodchenko and films of Vertov and Eisenstein. "Remarkable," says Volland, "how even in the most harrowing circumstances, with death, suffering and danger all around him, he could still tend to the composition...
...acting chair of the comparative literature department also saw two of her courses welcomed into the new curriculum. Susan R. Suleiman’s “French 132b. 20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode” and Literature & Arts C-55: “Surrealism: Avant-Garde Art and Politics between the Wars” were approved for the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding category. English professor Helen Vendler’s class, Literature and Arts A-22: “Poems, Poets, Poetry,” will also count toward Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding. History professor Charles...