Has avant-garde fashion gone the way of the hobble skirt? It would seem so at a time when the biggest names are playing it safe, few young designers are touting unorthodox clothing styles and ...

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

This past November, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, sponsored a three-day “international” conference entitled “Avant-Garde Art and Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of Modernism.” As ...

IN MÉDIATIONS, no.4, Lucien Goldmann, recently turned critic specializing in the cultural avant-garde, speaks of an "avant-garde of absence," one that expresses in art and style a certain rejection of ...

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

Paintings for the Art Fund of the Museum of Artistic Culture in the Museum Bureau of IZO Narkompros collection, Moscow, 1919–20. © Encyclopedia of the Russian ...

The avant-garde wanted to demolish museums, believing they served to petrify and cultivate the past, which needed to be discarded in the name of a better tomorrow. But the avant-garde also dreamed of ...

The extraordinary festival of formal inventiveness that has dominated the architectural world since the 1980s—a festival that was initially stimulated by opposition to the historicist Postmodernism of ...

Avant-garde music can be described as experimental tunes developed from the mid-20th century onward. The genre is far too large and diverse to describe in such simple terms. But, to be a realist, the ...

Roosevelt needed to get America ready to fight and he already knew that his efforts to help unemployed Americans find themselves in social realist art would have to be abandoned. American art had to ...