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...imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall Street crash, the time of the Great War, the Russian Revolution and the Weimar Republic. This was the last period in which the dream of the engaged avant-garde seemed credible: that...
...Carter has remained content to work within the wide limits that Mingus and his early contemporaries established. Even early in his career, Carter was indebted to Mingus for giving the bass a major role in jazz improvisation. And yet, he did not follow Mingus into the avant-grade line of jazz; he did not abandon the classic role of the bass as a rhythm instrument...
...ideal opportunity to expose audiences to music that record stores couldn't sell and radios wouldn't air. But unfortunately Philadelphia was a city of old-blood lawyers and clergymen, where music was regarded as something of dubious merit and suspicion. There was no conceivable way to make the avant-garde noise palatable to subscribers, argued the orchestra management. Bickering between the artist and board members reached an inevitable head in 1938, and Stokowski's 29-year association with the Philadelphia Orchestra ended in bitterness...
Author Robert Coover, 45, is not a household name, unless the house happens to be a college dormitory. An on-and-off teacher, Coover has won a campus reputation as an avant-gardist who can do with reality what a magician does with a pack of cards: shuffle the familiar into unexpected patterns. Devotees religiously pass along The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., an eerie tale of a recluse who invents and maintains an eight-team baseball league and the lives of hundreds of players. First editions of his first novel (The Origin of the Brunists) and a collection of short...
...throughout the summer in Paris' new Tinkertoy Louvre, the Pompidou Center, is one of the most eagerly awaited modern art exhibitions in years. Its theme is epic. For 75 years, a deep current of cultural influence ran between France and America, bearing with it a rich mix of avant-garde nutrients. From 1900 to the end of World War II it flowed west, so that the forms of American modernism were almost all based on prototypes offered by the School of Paris from Cézanne and Matisse onward -cubism, futurism, constructivism, surrealism, in fact nearly every successive European...