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...BOTTOM LINE: The Cuban artist built a bridge between the Caribbean and the avant-gardes of Paris and New York...
Harvard will be home to a well-known avant-garde filmmaker and a scholar of Asian-American history next year when they arrive as visiting professors, department officials said yesterday...
...woman of the hour in avant-garde film," said Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Alfred F. Guzzetti, who serves as the department's chair. "She's certainly one of the people who is paid attention to in avant-garde film...
...native of Westfield, Massachusetts, Rzewski graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1954 and came to Harvard. He studied here under Walter Piston but was also greatly influenced by Christian Wolff, at that time a graduate student in the classics department. Wolff introduced Rzewski to the avant-garde chance techniques of John Cage and Morton Feldman as well as those of Wolff himself, and Rzewski eventually became as famous for performing the works of these composers as for his own music. Upon graduating from Harvard, Rzewski spent two years at Princeton before going to Europe on Fulbright and Ford Foundation grants...
...like Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and even Francis Bacon. Sickert's "brown world" of rented rooms in Camden Town, with their plump, sweaty nudes, sprawled on iron bedsteads, dense and claustrophobic, runs into the younger painters', its solidly constructed Realism forming a bridge across the light turbulence of derivative avant- gardism in so much British...