Word: gardism
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...were to apply the Big Bang theory to art, the explosion could be said to have occurred during World Wars I and II. Avant-gardism-aggressive, impish, savage and wildly varied-still resounds throughout European and American culture. Jean-Luc Daval's Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939, (Skira-Rizzoli; 223 pages; $85) is a sequel to the author's Modern Art 1884-1914: The Decisive Years. The new work's 75 color reproductions and 270 black-and-white pictures have been chosen to illustrate Daval's brisk chronological text. By dividing his subject into 89 bite...
...Five Easy Pieces robbed of its vital flesh and muscle fabric. It is a blood brother of the genre established with Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces. These films bore the double burden of avoiding Hollywood debris and finding a voice independent of more practiced European avant-gardism. And they emerged as wholly American. Now Rafelson feels it his aesthetic duty to be new again. The problem is that his basic landscape hasn't changed, and so as be remodels his methods he sacrifices sincerity. The onetime pace-setter is pacing anew having lost his bearing...
...Road's peculiar combination of chichi, opportunistic avant-gardism and calculating commercialism makes it far more offensive than the crassest products from either Hollywood studios or the underground. The screenplay is the work of Terry Southern (again), who also acted as a coproducer, Scenarist Dennis McGuire and Director Aram Avakian. The three have taken John Earth's trim, controlled novel about a nervous breakdown in the groves of academe and reduced it to a madman's drool...
...Crowd. Khachaturian, 53, was even bolder. In a blistering statement he denounced Western avant-gardism, but went on to enthusiastic praise for an unregenerate formalist, Hungary's late Bela Bartok. Continued Khachaturian: "The seeking and daring artist is worth more than the well-trained craftsman who blindly copies . . . the great past masters." What added to his statement's interest was a list of young Soviet composers Khachaturian considers promising. This gave the West virtually its first glimpse of an almost unknown younger generation of composers. Among them: ¶Boris Tchaikovsky, 31, whose Slavic Rhapsody for Orchestra has stirred...
Someone ought to do for Gaylord [Babbitt] what Proust did for Madame Verdurin.* It would be a public service to publish a catalogue of the dreary cliches of so-called avant-gardism, and to point out that old George, with his uncomplicated enthusiasm for baseball and civil philanthropy, was no more hostile to genuine intellectual independence than Junior, with his exhibitionistic juggling of the phrases of psychoanalysis and wine tasting...