Part 1 Re: Johannes’s comment on my recent post, I first saw people using “avant-garde” to refer to work made today in the late 1990s, on the Frameworks mailing list, which is: an international forum on experimental film, avant-garde film, film as art, film as film, or film as visual poetry; film’s expressive qualities, aside [...]
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Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged avant-garde, DJ Kool Herc, Frameworks, Johannes Göransson, John Cage, Laurie Anderson on January 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »
What Is Experimental Art?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alec Empire, Arnold Schönberg, avant-garde, Diego Velázquez, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, experimental art, Frank Kermode, Ghost in the Shell, Harry Potter, Henri de Saint-Simon, Impressionism, innovation, J.K. Rowling, James Peterson, John Cage, La Monte Young, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Matei Călinescu, Minimalism, Olinde Rodrigues, outsider art, Philip Glass, Roman Jakobson, Salon des Refusés, serialist music, Stan Brakhage, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, the dominant, The Matrix, Titian, Wachowski on March 12, 2010 | 10 Comments »
One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words mean? Do they mean the same thing? I don’t think so, and in this post I’ll point out some basic differences between them. I’ll also define what I think experimental art essentially is, and how [...]