Neo-avant-garde / / edited by David Hopkins ; editorial assistant: Anna Katharina Schaffner.

• Superior document: Avant garde critical studies ; 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Hopkins, David, 1955-; Schaffner, Anna Katharina.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Avant garde critical studies ; 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 454 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: "Represents the outcome of a conference titled 'Mapping the neo-avant garde', which took place at the University of Edinburgh between 23rd-25th September 2005"--Preface.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; INTRODUCTION /; ‘ART’ AND ‘LIFE’… AND DEATH: MARCEL DUCHAMP, ROBERT MORRIS AND NEO-AVANT-GARDE IRONY /; WORKING IN THE GAP BETWEEN ART AND LIFE: FRANK O’HARA’S PROCESS POEMS /; ‘NEO-DADA’, ‘JUNK AESTHETIC’ AND SPECTATOR PARTICIPATION /; NEO-DADA PERFORMANCE ART /; INHERITING THE AVANT-GARDE: ON THE RECONCILIATION OF TRADITION AND INVENTION IN CONCRETE POETRY /; THE STRUCTURAL FILM: RUPTURES AND CONTINUITIES IN AVANT-GARDE ART /; MINIMAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE POST-WAR AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1960's /; THE “RUPTURA” PROCLAIMED BY BRAZIL’S SELF-STYLED “VANGUARDAS” OF THE FIFTIES /; TOWARDS AN AESTHETICS OF POVERTY: ARCHITECTURE AND THE NEO-AVANT-GARDE IN 1960's BRAZIL /; THE AVANT-GARDE, NEO-AVANT-GARDE AND RADIO: ROBERT DESNOS AND PHILIPPE SOUPAULT /; HOME FURNISHINGS: RICHARD HAMILTON, DOMESTICITY AND ‘POST-AVANT-GARDISM’ /; GENDER TROUBLE? BODY TROUBLE? REINVESTIGATING THE WORK OF MARISOL ESCOBAR /; JOE BRAINARD’S QUEER SERIOUSNESS, OR, HOW TO MAKE FUN OUT OF THE AVANT-GARDE /; THE DIALOGICAL IMAGINATION: THE CONVERSATIONAL AESTHETIC OF CONCEPTUAL ART /; DESTRUKTION RSG-6: TOWARDS A SITUATIONIST AVANT-GARDE TODAY /; “MOVENS” OR THE AESTHETICS OF MOVEMENT AS A PROGRAMMATIC PERSPECTIVE /; THE AVANT-GARDE IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE AVANT-GARDE! /; TOWARDS A “RECONCILIATION OF MAN AND NATURE”. NATURE AND ECOLOGY IN THE AESTHETIC AVANT-GARDE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY /; “BLACKBIRDS RISE FROM A FIELD...”: PRODUCTION, STRUCTURE AND OBEDIENCE IN JOHN CAGE'S LECTURE ON NOTHING /; “JEDER KANN DADA”: THE REPETITION, TRAUMA AND DEFERRED COMPLETION OF THE AVANT-GARDE /; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS /; ABSTRACTS /; CONTRIBUTORS /; INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9401203768; 1429480513
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by David Hopkins ; editorial assistant: Anna Katharina Schaffner.

The neo-avant-garde of the 1950's, 60's and 70's, is due for a thoroughgoing reassessment. This collection of essays represents the first full-scale attempt to deal with the concept from an interdisciplinary standpoint. A number of essays in this book concentrate on fine art, particularly painting and sculpture, thereby adding significantly to the growing art historical literature in the field, but a number of the contributions also focus on poetry, performance, theatre, film, architecture and music. Given that there are also major essays here dealing with geographical blind spots in current neo-avant-garde studies, with thematic issues such as art’s entanglement with gender, mass culture and politics, with key neo-avant-garde publications, and with the purely theoretical problems attaching to the theorisation of the topic, this collection offers a multi-dimensional approach to the subject which is noticeably lacking elsewhere. Taken together these essays represent a consolidated attempt at re-thinking the ‘cultural logic’ of the immediate post-World War II period.