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Author | : Faith Binckes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0199252521 |
Download Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-garde Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 2000.
Author | : C. Warden |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2012-05-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137020695 |
Download British Avant-Garde Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores an under-researched body of work from the early decades of the twentieth century, connecting plays, performances and practitioners together in dynamic dialogues. Moving across national, generational and social borders, the book reads experiments in Britain during this period alongside theatrical innovations overseas.
Author | : David Curtis |
Publisher | : John Libbey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2020-11-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0861969804 |
Download London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967–69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol's twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and music (first UK performance of Erik Satie's 24-hour Vexations) and fringe theatre (People Show / Freehold / Jane Arden's Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven / Will Spoor Mime Theatre). The Robert Street 'New Arts Lab' (1969–71) housed Britain's first video workshop TVX, the London Filmmakers Co-op's first workshop and a 5-days-a-week cinema devoted to showing new work by moving-image artists (David Larcher / Malcolm Le Grice / Sally Potter / Carolee Schneemann / Peter Gidal). It staged J G Ballard's infamous Crashed Cars exhibition and John & Dianne Lifton's pioneering computer-aided dance/mime performances. The impact of London's Labs led to an explosion of new artist-led spaces across Britain. This book relates the struggles of FACOP (Friends of the Arts Council Operative) to make the case for these new kinds of space and these new art-forms and the Arts Council's hesitant response – in the context of a popular press already hostile to youth culture, experimental art and the 'underground'. With a Foreword by Andrew Wilson, Curator Modern & Contemporary British Art and Archives, Tate Gallery.
Author | : Josephine M. Guy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael O'Pray |
Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781903364567 |
Download Avant-garde Film Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Annotation Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
Author | : A.L. Rees |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838714197 |
Download A History of Experimental Film and Video Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its postmodern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. In this revised and updated edition, Rees introduces experimental film and video to new readers interested in the wider cinema, as well as offering a guide to enthusiasts of avant-garde film and new media arts. Ranging from Cézanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British film and video artists from the 1990s to the present day, this expansive study situates avant-garde film between the cinema and the gallery, with many links to sonic as well as visual arts. The new edition includes a review of current scholarship in avant-garde film history and includes updated reading and viewing lists. It also features a new introduction and concluding chapter, which assess the rise of video projection in the gallery since the millennium, and describe new work by the latest generation of experimental film-makers. The new edition is richly illustrated with images of the art works discussed.
Author | : Michael O'Pray |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781860200045 |
Download The British Avant-garde Film, 1926-1995 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essay celebrating British avant-garde cinema's rich history draws together writings by filmmakers, theorists, critics, and curators. These individuals have been engaged over the past 70 years with film not only as a form of art practice but also as a subversive means of representing British society itself and as a personal expression of issues of memory, sexuality, and ethnicity. Included are essays from a wide range of distinguished writers--from Virginia Woolf, Lindsay Anderson, and peter Gidal to Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and Malcolm Le Grice.
Author | : Sam Cooper |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317190807 |
Download The Situationist International in Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination of the twentieth century avant-garde tradition — as the true successor of Dada and Surrealism. Its grand ambition was not unfounded. Though it dissolved in 1972, generations of artists and writers, theorists and provocateurs, punks and psychogeographers have continued its effort to confront and contest the ‘society of the spectacle.’ This book constructs a long cultural history, beginning in the interwar period with the arrival of Surrealism to Britain, moving through the countercultures of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally surveying the directions in which Situationist theory and practice are being taken today. It combines agile historicism with close readings of a vast range of archival and newly excavated materials, including newspaper reports, underground pamphlets, Psychogeographical films, and experimental novels. It brings to light an overlooked but ferociously productive period of British avant-garde practice, and demonstrates how this subterranean activity helps us to understand postwar culture, late modernism, and the complex internationalization of the avant-garde. As popular and academic interest in the Situationists grows, this book offers an important contribution to the international history of the avant-garde and Surrealism. It will prove a valuable resource for researchers and students of English and Comparative Literature, Modernism and the Avant-Gardes, Twentieth Century and Contemporary History, Cultural Studies, Art History, and Political Aesthetics.
Author | : New York Cultural Center |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Arts, British |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Timothy Brown |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857450794 |
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The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term “1968” can by no means be confined under the rubric of “protest,” understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions generated in response to “1968” frequently involved attempts to elaborate resistance within the realm of culture generally, and in the arts in particular. This blurring of the boundary between art and politics was a characteristic development of the political activism of the postwar period. This volume brings together a group of essays concerned with the multifaceted link between culture and politics, highlighting lesser-known case studies and opening new perspectives on the development of anti-authoritarian politics in Europe from the 1950s to the fall of Communism and beyond.