Neo-avant-garde / / 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, particul...

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Superior document:Avant garde critical studies ; 20
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / David Hopkins and Anna Katharina Schaffner
  • INTRODUCTION / DAVID HOPKINS
  • ‘ART’ AND ‘LIFE’… AND DEATH: MARCEL DUCHAMP, ROBERT MORRIS AND NEO-AVANT-GARDE IRONY / DAVID HOPKINS
  • WORKING IN THE GAP BETWEEN ART AND LIFE: FRANK O’HARA’S PROCESS POEMS / MARK SILVERBERG
  • ‘NEO-DADA’, ‘JUNK AESTHETIC’ AND SPECTATOR PARTICIPATION / ANNA DEZEUZE
  • NEO-DADA PERFORMANCE ART / GÜNTER BERGHAUS
  • INHERITING THE AVANT-GARDE: ON THE RECONCILIATION OF TRADITION AND INVENTION IN CONCRETE POETRY / ANNA KATHARINA SCHAFFNER
  • THE STRUCTURAL FILM: RUPTURES AND CONTINUITIES IN AVANT-GARDE ART / R. BRUCE ELDER
  • MINIMAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE POST-WAR AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1960's / TANIA ØRUM
  • THE “RUPTURA” PROCLAIMED BY BRAZIL’S SELF-STYLED “VANGUARDAS” OF THE FIFTIES / CLAUS CLÜVER
  • TOWARDS AN AESTHETICS OF POVERTY: ARCHITECTURE AND THE NEO-AVANT-GARDE IN 1960's BRAZIL / RICHARD J. WILLIAMS
  • THE AVANT-GARDE, NEO-AVANT-GARDE AND RADIO: ROBERT DESNOS AND PHILIPPE SOUPAULT / KEITH ASPLEY
  • HOME FURNISHINGS: RICHARD HAMILTON, DOMESTICITY AND ‘POST-AVANT-GARDISM’ / BEN HIGHMORE
  • GENDER TROUBLE? BODY TROUBLE? REINVESTIGATING THE WORK OF MARISOL ESCOBAR / KATHARINE SWARBRICK
  • JOE BRAINARD’S QUEER SERIOUSNESS, OR, HOW TO MAKE FUN OUT OF THE AVANT-GARDE / GAVIN BUTT
  • THE DIALOGICAL IMAGINATION: THE CONVERSATIONAL AESTHETIC OF CONCEPTUAL ART / MICHAEL CORRIS
  • DESTRUKTION RSG-6: TOWARDS A SITUATIONIST AVANT-GARDE TODAY / FRANCES STRACEY
  • “MOVENS” OR THE AESTHETICS OF MOVEMENT AS A PROGRAMMATIC PERSPECTIVE / FRIEDRICH W. BLOCK
  • THE AVANT-GARDE IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE AVANT-GARDE! / MARTIN PUCHNER
  • TOWARDS A “RECONCILIATION OF MAN AND NATURE”. NATURE AND ECOLOGY IN THE AESTHETIC AVANT-GARDE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / HUBERT F. VAN DEN BERG
  • “BLACKBIRDS RISE FROM A FIELD...”: PRODUCTION, STRUCTURE AND OBEDIENCE IN JOHN CAGE'S LECTURE ON NOTHING / MARTIN J. C. DIXON
  • “JEDER KANN DADA”: THE REPETITION, TRAUMA AND DEFERRED COMPLETION OF THE AVANT-GARDE / DAFYDD JONES
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / David Hopkins and Anna Katharina Schaffner
  • ABSTRACTS / David Hopkins and Anna Katharina Schaffner
  • CONTRIBUTORS / David Hopkins and Anna Katharina Schaffner
  • INDEX / David Hopkins and Anna Katharina Schaffner.