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Short photo essays concentrate on seven designers, among them Miyake, the ebulliently inventive Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo, whose designs demonstrate what Koren calls "irony, image juxtaposition and whimsy . . . the purest, most uncompromising and strongest avant-garde vision." The book also includes chapters of careful observation on history and tradition, fabric design, graphic display and body structure (illustrated with vintage photos of women who dive for fish outside a village east of Tokyo). "I make style out of life," Miyake says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos...
...acknowledged excellence, but high price, as Dunhill cigarette lighters, Rolex watches or Leica cameras. Sears does not try to lead the customer to new and esoteric, and sometimes useless, products. Says Joseph Batogowski, senior executive vice president of merchandising: "We are a mass merchant. We strive to carry not avant-garde goods, but the current state of mass America...
...here is the cadenzas by Alfred Schnittke, a contemporary Soviet composer championed by Kremer. Schnittke's adventurous interludes are a modern commentary on Beethoven's themes and provide a welcome, if at first startling, respite from the usual cadenzas by Joseph Joachim and Fritz Kreisler. This is avant-garde Beethoven with a vengeance that causes the listener to sit up and pay attention to the music. It's about time. -By Michael Walsh
...Arquitectonica's way of trying to make up for modern architecture's shortcomings in social purpose and aesthetic satisfaction. These faults have sent other architects to the attic for historic forms and ornaments. Arquitectonica is building on the spirit of daring and experiment that characterized the avant-garde earlier in this century. "We are not trying to create a new style," says Laurinda Spear, 33, one of the founding partners. "We are just trying to make modern architecture more lively and up to date...
...last years of his life (he died in 1903, just outliving Beardsley and Wilde, who owed so much to his ideas and style), Whistler was seen as an honored veteran and not an avant-garde figure; his paintings had lost whatever experimental look they once had, and were surpassed by impressionism. Curiously, his biggest influence was on writing. Poets Stéphane Mallarmé found their own cult of the indeterminate, the penumbra of experience, confirmed in his work. The Whistlerian landscape of Thames kept turning up in English poetry for another generation-not least in The Waste Land, with...