Word: avante
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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...
...champagne cork, and spaghetti automatically means fennel-raspberry pasta. To ask for a glass of ordinary tap water or regular coffee is to admit that you hail from Tulsa. Pretentious readings of bogus poetry have now been supplanted by SF Net, a coffeehouse computer linkup that enables pseudo avant-gardists to cross-chat electronically over their caffe e latte...
...first accessible style of international Modernism; it dissolved the tensions that had existed, in Europe as in America, between avant-garde art and the general public. Consequently it set in motion enormous changes in the art market and in public attitudes toward the new. It was art about consumption, and it sat up and begged to be consumed. It also fed back, with incredible speed, into the domain of popular culture -- partly because it was so easily, and at times misleadingly, reproducible. (An early Lichtenstein like Masterpiece, 1962, inflates with complications when liberated from a comic-strip frame; reproduced...
...time, chic: it entered the salons and diffused through the decorative arts, especially in France. And it turned pompier, as in the morbid and overblown paintings of society artist Tamara de Lempicka. The birth of Art Deco is one of the themes of this show -- designers' homages to larger avant-garde ideas: a Cubist table lamp, for instance, or "skyscraper" furniture...
...offered to all, in participatory arenas large and small. A "soviet" was a democratic forum more like a town meeting than anything else, back before it became sysonymous with gerontocracy, corruption and the nomenklatura. Factory meetings, cooperative meetings, production meetings, even artists' meetings. When we think of the Soviet avant-garde of the early twenties, we must remember that it was the massive unleashing of human potential that drove the arts forward. Marx's dream wasn't becoming a reality, but it was becoming less ludicrous...