Word: avante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Always among the avant-garde, many grad students say Harvard's usual beginning-of-the-year cocktail parties are now abandoning the traditional for the trendy...
...ideologically determined the "revolutionary" view of 20th century art has been. One of the pernicious illusions about modernism lies in treating it as a continuous struggle against the past, as though every real artist were his own Oedipus. In fact, the house of inspiration is much larger than avant-gardist rhetoric has ever allowed. The great transformers of art history, like Picasso or Matisse, were also its great conservators. The idea that one tradition was killed stone-dead in 1907, when Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and that another was born from the act, is nonsense. Perhaps there...
JESUS OF MONTREAL. An avant-garde theater troupe performs its own radical updating of the Passion play. Now, shouldn't a film with that story enrage a few conservative zealots? Alas, Denys Arcand's French-Canadian satire is so solemn that it is not worth patronizing -- or even picketing...
...been riven for months by a controversy over federal funding for a photo show that includes nine erotic pieces, governments in East and West Germany collectively spend up to $1.5 billion a year to underwrite theaters that can be shrill, confrontational, even arguably obscene, but also aggressively intellectual, exactingly avant-garde -- and, frequently, breathtakingly good. That may be why German playgoers applaud works that would send spectators elsewhere hurtling toward the exits...
...natural amphitheater framed by mountains and sea, produces a smog worthy of Los Angeles. Some may even view as excessive chauvinism the natives' insistence on speaking Catalan rather than Spanish. But those who take the time will discover in this most Mediterranean of cities a rare personality, fanatically avant-garde yet obsessively preservationist. First century Roman baths are being excavated amid the twisting streets of its dense Gothic quarter. The famous Picasso Museum is housed in a 15th century palace; the main Olympic stadium is a renovated 1929 arena. This month Antoni Tapies, Catalonia's best-known living painter, will...