books about: avant

books about: avant

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Avant

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

Greil Marcus

Harvard University Press, 1990

A Catalog of Style Leaps.
I agree that this book is a page turner. A great balance of text and contexts. If you are intrigued by it's subject matter (Pistols/Dada/etc..) you'll have a hard time putting it down.

Theory of the Avant-Garde (Theory & History of Literature)

Peter Burger

University of Minnesota Press, 1984

Modernism vs the Avant-Garde
This book argues a clear difference between two often confused terms: Modernism and the Avant-Garde. According to Peter Burger, Modernism dealt with formal evolution of style (in visual arts as well as in literature), while the Avant-Garde project involved radical ...

The Nancy Book
Joe Brainard

Siglio Press, 2008

From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I Remember ) created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence. In The Nancy Book , Joe Brainard's Nancy traverses high art and low, ...

Situationist International Anthology

Bureau Of Public Secrets, 2007

Essential
If you're interested in the Situationist International & you don't speak/read French, you need this book! It's the absolute STANDARD-SETTING WORK for English translations of Situationist (and some Letterist International) texts. Absolutely essential.

Ace the GRE Writing Assessment

Timothy Avants

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007

Awesome for Special Review
I consumed this like a protein shake and came back to it over and over again to compare in analyzing others' essays. This is great. It hits the heart of the writing -issue and argument..

The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (October Books)

Hal Foster

The MIT Press, 1996

How can this be anything but five stars!
Granted, I'm not a Phd. in art history, so I can't claim how much of Foster's thinking is his own and how much he "borrows," but these essays, all interrelated and commenting on each other, carefully dissect postwar art, culture, politics, theory. I've read these ...

Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage
Branden W. Joseph

Zone Books, 2008

Tony Conrad has significantly influenced cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, "concept art," postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt's radical anti-art, ...

No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.

Thurston Moore, Byron Coley

Abrams Image, 2008

eye candy and history
1970's New York, a time of polemic filth and fury with displaced art kids crashing head first into the detritus to form bands without which we would have no Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs or (insert a hundred names here). Framed around this incredible gathering of black & ...

Strategies for Theory Construction in Nursing (4th Edition)

Lorraine Olszewski Walker, Kay Coalson Avant

Prentice Hall, 2004

Theory Construction
As a beginning researcher in medicine, I was quite surprised to find that medicine is considered an atheoretical science. Perhaps I missed a few classes along the way, but as a family physician, I thought I understood theory and theory development. That was until I ...

A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music

George E. Lewis

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

The avant-garde jazz compendium
George E. Lewis has written a superlative history of avant-garde jazz and The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. I am truly amazed with his research, depth of understanding and what he is teaching me. I get the value of being one of his students ...

Avant Gardeners
Tim Richardson

Thames & Hudson, 2008

Profiles of the fifty most exciting contemporary landscape design practices from around the world. For the past decade, garden and landscape design have seen a burgeoning of new ideas on space and the experience of the outdoors. Recent garden plans have embraced the latest thinking in materials, science, and interactive design, and have ...

How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art

Serge Guilbaut

University Of Chicago Press, 1985

Answers to several questions
I am an Argentine art critic and curator. I knew of this book but had not read it. I ordered it because I found the title ingenious. I thought it would be entertaining as well as good. It goes further. It is an in-depth study of the social and political circumnstances ...

Archigram: Architecture without Architecture
Simon Sadler

The MIT Press, 2005

Shortlisted for the 2008 Bruno Zevi Award presented by International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA). and Winner, Trade Illustrated Category, 2006 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show. In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that ...

Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson
P. Adams Sitney

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan ...

Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (October Books)

Branden W. Joseph

The MIT Press, 2007

Indispensable
This study of Rauschenberg will doubtless make itself pretty much indispensable in the literature on the artist. It's a brilliant study- Joseph is in command of the literature on the topic, demonstrates a great deal of theoretical sophistication, as well as showing a ...