Word: gardistes
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DIED. NAM JUNE PAIK, 74, impish Korean-born avant-gardist deemed the inventor of video art who in the 1960s won acclaim with works that simultaneously celebrated and spoofed the fledgling notion of media overload; of natural causes; in Miami. Inspired by iconoclast composer John Cage, he created such renowned installations as Video Fish, an array of 52 live monitors, each obscured by fish-filled aquariums...
...patron, she could not help sometimes but to produce them with authority. Perseus and the Gorgon, in which the son of Zeus holds high the severed head of Medusa while her winged body collapses in a long arc around his feet, may not be the work of an avant-gardist, but that dynamic torquing line, the complexity of volume and void, are the work of a woman who could bring virtuosity even to what she made for philistine tastes...
Every Neil Young album arrives with a question: which Neil this time? the folkie? The grunge progenitor? The acoustic country guy? Or the avant-gardist whose sonic violence can make instruments--and sometimes fans--cry out for mercy? For his 31st album, Prairie Wind, out Sept. 27, it's yet another Neil Young: a mortal one. In March, Young was told he had a brain aneurysm, and Prairie Wind poured out of him in the week between diagnosis and his undergoing surgery. Naturally, there are songs about death and loneliness, but the album, one of the most melodic...
...PROBLEM WITH BEING FAMOUS for defying expectations is that eventually you can defy expectations only by not defying expectations. Which may explain why after nine albums and at least four career incarnations--presumptive one-hit wonder, exuberant hip-hop star, inscrutable avant-gardist and heartbroken folkie--Beck has decided it's time to give up the shape shifting. "In the past I spent a lot of time rejecting sounds that were similar to what I'd come up with before just to purposefully try to get away from anything familiar," says Beck, phoning from a Los Angeles recording studio...
...Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali's talent was "the precise opposite of those qualities which make a painter." But without the power granted by illusion to overturn our sense of the world's plain factuality, his contribution to 20th century culture would have been slight...