If Avant-garde is considered as any politically advanced or progressive cultural practice then there is still a desperate need for it (though the concept of 'progressive' may have ceased). The contexts of globalisation, reification and commodification need resisting and not conforming to. Post-modernity isas Lyotard put it, a condition and as a condition (and not a successor, 'replacement or 'style') and encompasses both the traditional and the modern.
Rob On 07/11/2013 20:59, "Myron Ort" <[email protected]> wrote: > > a·vant-garde > > noun > 1. > new and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people > introducing them. > > > > > adjective > 1.favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas. > > > > > > So avant garde science would include all the unsuccessful experiments > regardless of significance, validity, or connection to any historical > development. > Fortunately science never succumbed to the "tradition of the new" which > undermined sanity in the arts. Insanity seems to rule and reference to or use > of tradition is branded as (been there done that - anti avant garde) > plagiarism. > I prefer the idea of art, like science, being built on a history of useful > discoveries for expression, not expression for its own sake at the expense of > insightful universality, technique, and craft. > > -not making any friends, > Myron Ort > > > > > On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Stashu Kybartas wrote: > >> Perhaps we should just admit that the Avant-Garde ended where Post-Modernism >> and identity politics picked up. (the Post 70s chapters in Sitney >> notwithstanding). The take was driven into the heart of the Avant-Garde at >> the turn of this century with the web. >> >> There is no avant-garde now. The internet insures that NOTHING will stay >> avant - EVER. >> >> This is not nescessarily a bad thing. Time to move on to the great future >> where everything is available to everyone all the time - no exclusive clubs >> anymore. >> >> Keep the faith... >> >> >> >> Stashu Kybartas >> Lecturer IV >> University of Michigan >> Department of Screen Arts and Cultures >> 6330 North Quad >> 105 South State Street >> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 >> >> (734) 546-9966 >> (773) 348-4292 >> >> On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Albert Alcoz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Here's another one: >>> Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism >>> by Patricia Melllencap (Indiana University Press) >>> >>> >>> >>> De: "William Wees, Dr." <[email protected]> >>> Para: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> >>> Enviado: Jueves 7 de noviembre de 2013 2:26 >>> Asunto: Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 >>> >>> I would suggest chapters 13 and 14 of Visionary Film: The American >>> Avant-Garde, 3rd edition, by P. Adams Sitney, Oxford University Press, 2002; >>> A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, by Paul Arthur, >>> University of Minnesota Press, 2005; and in all humility, a couple of essays >>> by myself: ²The Changing of the Garde(s)² in Public, No. 25, 2002, and ³No >>> More Giants² in Women and Experimental Filmmaking, eds. Jean Petrolle and >>> Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois Press, 2005. >>> >>> --Bill Wees >>> >>> >>> From: FrameWorks [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>> Of Ara Osterweil >>> Sent: November 5, 2013 10:19 AM >>> To: frameworks >>> Subject: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 >>> >>> Hello all, >>> A friend is compiling a bibliography and needs to know the 4-5 most >>> important scholarly books or articles on American a/g film made after 1976. >>> My scholarship on the a/g is mostly in the 60s and 70s and while I know much >>> of the work that comes after, I wanted to confirm my suspicions. >>> Suggestions welcome and appreciated. >>> Thanks, >>> Ara >>> >>> Falmouth University _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing > list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi > nfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
