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Avant Garde Civil War
996 wordsJohn Perreault is a musician who lives in Upstate, NY. He started appreciating music at an early age. Banging on pots-and-pans, singing. His grandfather, who was a professional musician, and my supportive parents, drove his interest in music. He was always in chorus. Then when the time came, he took up the bass in fourth grade. He quit the bass playing after three years and didn't do anything musical. He took a few music classes, but played nothing on the side. Then his grandfather passed away i...
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Fruit That Grows Fruit That Grows In Man Arp
535 wordsArt is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb, once commented Jean Arp -- a remarkable twentieth-century sculptor, painter and poet associated with and a forefather of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was born on September 16, 1887 in Strasbourg, France, where he studied at the Ecole des Arts et Mtiers. In 1905, he transferred to the Weimar Academy and then to Paris at the Academic Julian in 1908, and subsequent to graduation ...
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Marcel Duchamp Avant Garde
1,073 wordsThroughout the period that covered the last half of the nineteenth century, Western Europe enjoyed the gatherings of a great wealth that was accumulated by the industrial-colonial economy. The revolutionary changes in the stratification of the society and the functioning of the production system brought new perspectives to view the individual and the world that surrounded him. The bourgeoisie reached the summit of its rise since the French Revolution, and industrial European cities became the ce...
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1,080 words... of avant-garde ideas within the unique culture of America. Duchamp made the following account in another interview: '... And I believe that your idea of demolishing old buildings and souvenirs, is fine... The dead should not be permitted to be so much stronger than the living. ' For him European art was surely dead, and even 'Nude Descending a Staircase' was not worth of further discussion, since it was what to do that Duchamp cared and not what he had done. Here, my main concern will be Duc...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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20 Th Century Avant Garde
2,580 wordsThe environment was major contributing factor to the evolution of Australian art in the 20 th century. The elemental landscape; isolation and distance, the imposition of the mythical and the visionary on the landscape, national identity (the universal and the regional) and the demise of Arcadia and romantic idealism interweave magnificently to present the impact of surroundings on the artwork of such a then delicate nation. In retrospect it was the surroundings / climate /atmosphere / feeling an...
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Aspects Of Life Avant Garde
1,293 wordsThe movement occurred after 1945 is postmodernism which had shown its powerful effects in every aspect of life. Its a movement that cant be defined with a simple sentence because postmodernism has lots of components and directions. A postmodernist reflects history's theological interpretations. When we talk about post-modernism we also take the concept modernism in our concept. Postmodernism is defined related to modernism as the legalization of illegal parts of modernism. Modernity and postmode...
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20 Th Century Museum Of Art
803 wordsMarcel Duchamp, was a French Dada artist, whose miniature but litigious output exerted a strong power on the expansion of 20 th-century avant-garde art. Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, and was a brother of another prominent artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon as well as a half brother of another famous painter Jacques Villon. Marcel Duchamp began to paint himself in 1908. After creating several canvases in then popular genre of Fauvism, he started to do experimentation and the avant-...
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Greenwich Village Theater History And Its Part 1
1,681 wordsGreenwich Village Theater History and its Effects Introduction It has often been suggested that Greenwich Village needs to be discussed within a context of lifestyle rather then any other. This suggestion is perfectly understandable, given the fact that this part of New York is strongly associated with the rise of avant-garde art and theater, in the second part of twentieth century. There were objective reasons why Greenwich Village has always been attracting creative people. Even at the time be...
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Marcel And Its Power On Modern Day Art
686 wordsMarcel Duchamp's Readymades and Its Power on Modern Day Art Marcel Duchamp, was a French Dada artist, whose miniature but litigious output exerted a strong power on the expansion of 20 th-century avant-garde art. Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, and was a brother of another prominent artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon as well as a half brother of another famous painter Jacques Villon. Marcel Duchamp began to paint himself in 1908. After creating several canvases in then popular genre...
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E E Cummings Avant Garde
2,608 wordsE. E. Cummings E. E. Cummings is a phenomenon in literature of the twentieth century. Any serious literary criticism would not deny it. The poet altered grammar and verse-writing rules for the sake of artistic expression. His second nature of a painter has urged him to experiment punctuation, typography and capitalization, just to name a few tools he employed to convey his expression. His poetry form is strikingly bold and sometimes puzzling and though his style is difficult to classify, it has ...
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Avant Garde Big Band
624 wordsBreakthroughs in American Jazz The backdrop was New Orleans in the late 19 th century, a growing port city with a diverse population of African Americans, whites, displaced French settlers, and immigrants from the West Indies and South America. This hodgepodge of cultures mixed European influenced popular music, such as ragtime, with tradition African music creating the hybrid musical style known as jazz. Jazz, bold and beautiful, in its purest sense demands high instrumentation mastery, creativ...
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Avant Garde Dizzy Gillespie
2,137 wordsJazz, John Coltrane John Coltrane Jazz, taking its roots in African American folk music, has evolved, metamorphosed, and transposed itself over the last century to become a truly American art form. More than any other type of music, it places special emphasis on innovative individual interpretation. Instead of relying on a written score, the musician improvises. For each specific period or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years, there is almost always a single pers...
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Avant Garde Cubism Art
475 wordsRoss Murray Art Essay CUBISM In the world of art, Cubism is probably the most important art movement in the history of 20 th Century Art. Cubism brought in new ways of composing pictures and also showed new ways of representing nature. New movement also brought in new attitudes towards the picture surface and the application of paint. The ideas of colour theory were all changed. This caused a liberation of these elements from a merely descriptive function have all featured in the development of ...
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Avant Garde Lady Macbeth
1,557 wordsDmitri Dimitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin Internatio...
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Aspects Of Life Avant Garde
1,328 wordsEffects Of Postmodernism In Relation To Communication Effects Of Postmodernism In Relation To Communication And Society The movement occurred after 1945 is postmodernism which had shown it? s powerful effects in every aspect of life. It? s a movement that can? t be defined with a simple sentence because postmodernism has lots of components and directions. A postmodernist reflects history? s theological interpretations. When we talk about post-modernism we also take the concept modernism in our c...
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Cinema Repertory Anthology Essential Cinema Repertory Anthology Film
390 wordsAnthology Film Archives evolved from roots and visions that go back to the early Sixties, when Jonas Means, the director of the Film-Makers Cinematheque, a showcase for avant-garde films, dreamed of establishing a permanent home where the growing number of new independent / avant -garde films could be shown on a regular basis. Anthology maintains that the art of film must be defined in terms of selected works which indicate its essence and its possibilities. In addition to the Essential Cinema R...
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Avant Garde Mass Culture
827 wordsIs Popular Culture Subservient To High Culture Is Popular Culture Subservient To High Culture And If So, Why? Is High Culture Superior to Popular Culture, and if so Why? For about a century, Western Culture has really been divided into two cultures, the traditional type of high culture and a mass culture manufactured wholesale for the market. High culture is the arts that require some form of intellect to comprehend, so therefore can only reach a tiny segment of the population, whilst levelling ...
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Avant Garde John Coltrane
1,482 wordsJohn William Coltrane John Coltrane was one of the major innovators of contemporary jazz and the New Wave, which was a movement of more freedom in improvisation. John William Coltrane, b. Hamlet, N. C. , Sept. 23, 1926, d. July 17, 1967, is considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the past 35 years (only Miles Davis comes close), one of the greatest saxophonists of all time, and a remarkable innovator. Coltrane is a very interesting person because he traversed many styles of play...
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Avant Garde Modern Art
467 wordsModernist Art in Europe 1910 - 25 by Robert l. Herbert Herbert? s thesis of his essay is to investigate the arrival of the machine and modern art and its complexities. During WWI, modernist painting and sculpture paid major attention to machinery, science and industry. Modern art during that time has become a central factor in our culture due to its dominance in public art, museums, media and literature. Herbert brings in background information and stated the avant-garde of Pizarro, van Gogh, Mo...
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