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Title The popular avant-garde / edited by Renée M. Silverman.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Avant-garde critical studies ; 25
Avant garde critical studies ; 25.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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 takes stock of the debates about both the "historical" ("modernist") and posterior avant-gardes, and sets them in relation to popular culture and art forms. With a critical introduction that examines the concepts of "the avant-garde," "the popular," and "the popular avant-garde," the series of essays.
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Subject Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Popular culture.
Popular culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Silverman, Renée M.
Other Form: Print version: Popular avant-garde. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010 9042031603 (OCoLC)671693357
ISBN 9789042031616 (electronic book)
9042031611 (electronic book)
9042031603
9789042031609