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Partisan Review editors eagerly--if briefly--embraced this new literary mode from 1934 to 1936, a total of nine issues. With avant-garde literature editors combined an adjoining interest in leftist politics; however, this marriage of art and politics was doomed to be both short-lived and turbulent, for it ultimately imposed unacceptable strictures upon the artist's and writer's creative freedom. As James T. Farrell,' author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy and a contributor to the magazine later said, the intellectuals' alliance with Stalinism amounted to an "artist straitjacket...
...body of influential music without ever reaching beyond a narrow, rather cultish audience. The 47-year-old violinist has been a primary member of the Creative Construction Company and the Revolutionary Ensemble, two groups that have provided important alternatives to the stale conventions of the post-Coltrane New York avant-garde. All the same, Jenkins is hardly a household word, even in the rarefied vocabulary of the modern jazz enthusiast...
...museum where it was stored. No damage was done to it, but the owner sued and was given $94,000 damages by a German court, a verdict happily greeted by Beuys as a victory over the "exploitative self-interest" of the beer drinkers. Plainly, something had happened to the avant-garde in the half-century since Marcel Duchamp suggested using a Rembrandt as an ironing board. Had it died of its own pomposity? If not, where was Beuys' claim to be an avant-gardist left? The problem is simple: there is no avant-garde any more, since...
...Anton.'' Among lesser composers, instant Webernism-compressed structures, jagged melodic leaps, spare, pointillist orchestration-became a sort of standard, freeze-dried product in the 1950s and '60s. Now that the vogue has subsided somewhat, Webern is in danger of having come and gone as an avant-garde influence without ever being absorbed into the standard repertory. A more definitive assessment is needed...
...father was born to a radical heritage and not expected to stray. After writing several appreciative pieces about avant-garde writers, he took command of Commentary in 1960 and steered it leftward...