Saturday, 4 February 2012

Avant Garde

Seminar


Italian futurists 1910 poetry, painting, music, drawings (right wing)
DaDa 1916 (left wing)
Russian constructivism 1920 music, film, writing (left wing)
Realism 1920 (left wing)

Political angle- Manifesto &Statement
  
Boccioni futurist music
Balilla Pratella

Marinetti
Words in freedom

Fascinated with war & machine
We will glorify war
Beautiful ideas worth dying for and scorn for women
Visual representative typography as explosive
Fit look of words and meaning of the words

Dada
Meaning of the words and the look of the words opposite.
Raul Haussman

Kurt Schwitters

With regard to typography one can established laws, never do what someone else has done before you.





Tristan tzara
A night of bold defeats – poet
Every page should explode because of seriousness, humour, or the way its printed.
  

Lecture


Reliquary – place where a relic is, drawing attention to the value of the object inside, which has no monetary value.

Musei Wormiani Historia – cabinet of curiosity
In german. A wunderkammer

No distinction between Art and natural history- just a collection
Empowerment
For a lot of people was a compensation for loss/something missing in your life
Dickens – the old curiosity shop
Curators – care

Paris opera house passage
Passage des panoramas –paris 1799
Walter Benjamin  wrote book on the archives. Montage comments on modernity in paris. The first sight of commodification

Umberto botchioni

Victoria quarter leeds 1900
Galeries Lafayette 1893
La smaritaine 1869


Tradition and history
History – you study,

Carl marx
All that is solid melts into air
What had a use value now has a exchange value, what its worth

1851 – the great exhibititon
1951 – festival of Britain

After 1970 there are no art movements

Marcel Broodthaers
Department of eagles
Fictional museum

Sites of display

Sophie Calle
Birthday
Ceremony 1991
Cabinets of birthdays

Situationist international
Criticized the commodification of everyday life
Detornement recycling (graphic, paintings and design over the top)
Derive- (translates as dirft) fragmented view of cities. Tourism is a form of commodification.



Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [avɑ̃ɡaʁd]) means "advance guard" or "vanguard".[1] The term is used in English as a noun or adjective to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada through the Situationists to postmodern artists such as the Language poets around 1981.(wiki)

A modern concept
1860-1960 modern period

post modern society
neo avant garde

avant garde-political and aesthetic (revolutionary)
pyramid of capitalist system-
money replaces status

4 movements

Italian futurism
Dada
Constructivism
Realism

1825
‘The artist the savant and the industrialist’
Comte de Saint Simon

A common impulse and a general scheme.
Not individualism or subjectivity
Realist – to show the world as it is. Matter of factness.
Realist with a capital R
Don’t confuse realism with realistic
Advent means progressing, cutting edge of social and cultural development

Charles Marville
Paris street 1865
Cholera outbreak. Medieval sewerage system, spreading infection
Barron houseman

Alphonse Allais. Mocking modern culture
Pemiere Communion De juenes

Funeral March….. (silence)
Like john cages piece 4.52 sec

Dada
Rejected the past like futurism, but it also rejected art
Anti art.
Salon Dada Exposition international
The establishment was responsible for the WW1
Reason for anti art
Confrontational motif.

Raul Hasmann
Dada Cino

Montage – practice discontinues.
Montage and collage, is different
Collage, newspaper and create a shape
Montage preserves the image as the image. – True to itself.

New york, paris, german
They were not into international work, they liked them to keep the culture

Graphic continuity, graphic symbolisation.

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