The popular avant-garde / / editor, Renée M. Silverman.

The avant-garde has been popular for some time, but its popularity has tended to fly under the radar. This “popular avant-garde,” conceived as the meeting ground of the avant-garde and popular, avoids the divorce of art and praxis of which the avant-garde has been accused. The Popular Avant-Garde ta...

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Superior document:Avant garde critical studies ; 25
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Avant garde critical studies ; 25.
Physical Description:1 online resource (307 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors The Popular Avant-Garde
  • Acknowledgements / Editors The Popular Avant-Garde
  • The Avant-Garde is Popular (Again) / Renée M. Silverman
  • “Not Reactionary, Just Late”: The Case for Ariano Suassuna as Brazilian Modernist / Kirsten Ernst
  • This Impossible Toyen / Malynne Sternstein
  • Huidobro, Cagliostro: Demiurge as Mage Conjuring a Metaphor for the Avant-Garde / Alexander Starkweather Fobes
  • Revisiting the Vanguard: Duchamp in Buenos Aires / Lori Cole
  • Duende and Modernism: Hart Crane’s and Federico García Lorca’s Variations on Rhythm and Sound / Esther Sánchez-Pardo
  • A Revolution of Shadows: Culture and Representation in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico / R. Hernández Rodríguez
  • Giménez Caballero’s Fractured Fairy Tale: “El Redentor mal parido” (1926) / Maria T. Pao
  • “A new dictionary of gestures”: Chaplin’s The Rink and Ricciotto Canudo’s Skating Rink / Christopher Townsend
  • A Quick Read(ies): Speed and Formula in Bob Brown’s Pulp Fiction and Avant-Garde Machines / Craig Saper
  • Reading Freire in London: Jo Spence’s Photographs between Popular and Avant-Garde / Siona Wilson
  • Touching Pasts In The Shadow of No Towers: 9/11 and Art Spiegelman’s Comix of Memory / Jennifer Cho
  • From Avant-Garde to Para-Garde: The Truth About Marika / Antti Salminen
  • Franciszka Themerson’s Ubu Comic Strip: Autography, Caricature, and the Avant-Garde / Barnaby Dicker
  • In Search of a People’s Art: The Divergent Positions of Jorge Oteiza and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Marina Pérez de Mendiola
  • Venezuelan Avant-Garde: María Calcaño’s Erotic Poetry / Giovanna Montenegro
  • Popular Anthropology: Dance, Race, and Katherine Dunham / Kirsten Strom
  • Tom Zé’s Unsong and the Fate of the Tropicália Movement / Fabio Akcelrud Durão and José Adriano Fenerick
  • Index of Names / Editors The Popular Avant-Garde.