Word: avante
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...considerable.”But that literary urge cannot be kept out of the book. Maybe Claudia is both right and wrong: Literature cannot transcend politics, but politics cannot escape literature. It’s a truth that Bolaño lived when he led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets called the “infrarealists,” and it’s a truth that he writes into his book. One character, hoping to gain status but choosing to forgo violence, turns to “literature, which is a surreptitious form of violence...
...eight years. He was 32 when he met Duchamp in 1911. (Duchamp later said he was impressed both by Picabia's high standing in the Paris art world and by his daily intake of opium.) Ray and Duchamp were friends by 1916, when they both started working for an avant-garde art gallery in New York City; Ray was 26, Duchamp 29. Picabia was born into a wealthy family, inherited a fortune and lived the life of a playboy. Duchamp, the son of a notary, was brought up in an arty but provincial middle-class family. He would be poor...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum, are full of subtly barbed letters between Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and the museum’s director.Moholy-Nagy was born in Dresden in 1903. In the late ’20s she met and married Laszlo when he asked her to help him edit an avant-garde film. After the rise of Nazism, the couple came to the United States by way of England and settled in Chicago, where Laszlo founded the New Bauhaus school.“Laszlo dies in ’46, and she has two daughters, so she has to become the breadwinner...
...generation of French writers. Author of 10 novels, he also made several films that bordered on the pornographic. Although he was named one of the 40 "immortals" of the Acadmie Franaise--custodians of the French language and cultural patrimony--Robbe-Grillet perplexed and scandalized readers with his avant-garde storytelling. His last work, Un Roman Sentimental, was derided by some critics as obscene when it came out last year, but Robbe-Grillet described it as a "fairy tale for adults...
...digital sound box, a set of toy xylophones and her voice to produce her own brand of futuristic electro-pop, and takes her low-key show - it often just involves her, a laptop and a microphone - to venues such as New York's Knitting Factory and Paris' avant-garde Cirque Electrique. Last summer, she played her first Tokyo show at Cafe Pause, seated at a far table, indistinguishable from the customers...