Word: avante
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Anderson discussed art often in her performance, referring to the NEA controversy and the disappearance of the avant-garde. She jokingly speculated about a hypothetical Museum of Recent Art, bemoaning the difficulty in defining the word "modern" in a world where time is measured in split-second sound bytes and MTV video flashes...
...plants, three hospitals, 1,240 miles of optic fibers and spotlighting for 20 churches and castles. Albertville, with its 18,200 inhabitants, boasts a grandiose new theater and arcaded plaza (christened Place de l'Europe) and fresh-laid cobblestones, plus a 23-ft.-high slab of granite posing as avant-garde sculpture. "We're no longer a sad little city!" rejoices the municipal magazine...
...career of Stuart Davis (1892-1964), the great American Modernist whose centenary show is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through Feb. 16, you have to imagine a time when American painting hardly mattered to Europe, and when the idea of an avant-garde scarcely mattered to Americans -- except as a source of laughs...
That time is far back, of course. America, in its eager embrace of the new, industrialized and academized the idea of avant-garde production so long ago that the notion of an unpopular, provincial Modernism seems remote. But 60 years ago it was very much a fact. In 1932 a New York critic urged the Metropolitan to buy a Davis, suggesting that it should hang on "the landings of the stairways, or possibly the Tea Room" -- obviously not in the main galleries, where the main...
Some offer more sophisticated praise. "It's more fresh and experimental than most drama at Harvard," said Mary M. Mitchell '92. "A lot of Harvard experimental theater ends up being selfconsciously avant-garde...