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...plot of the opera was as surprising as the score. In this era of deepening freeze in Soviet-U.S. relations, it is based on the true story of a Russian-American romance. Andrei Voznesensky, the Soviet Union's famed avant garde poet, thought of the idea for the production when he read about the historic love affair during a trip to California...
...question is too psychologically layered to be answered by Veblen's mechanistic theories. Brooks suggests that the parodic style of showing off is purest at society's extremes. There is the avant-garde's Warholian art and minority put-ons of majority classes, like black mockery of white manners...
...well as souvenirs of his life, assembled by a team of five art historians (two French, one English, two American). Already seen at the Hayward Gallery in London and the Grand Palais in Paris, this is the definitive show of an artist without whom the workings of the French avant-garde between 1870 and 1900 cannot be fully understood...
Pissarro was one of the avant-garde's oak-tree uncles: a man of enormous solidity and forthrightness, blunt in speech, loyal to his friends and open to younger artists. He loved to organize, teach, and argue and work with other painters, and the list of artists who owed him some part of their self-knowledge was long...
...When he first moved in, the students who were a year older--the first group of open gays at Harvard--kept up their spirits and challenged the prejudices of fellow students by "being outrageous," Schatz remembers. "It was an attack on people's pettiness," a sort of short-lived avant-garde rebellion...