Sentences with phrase «called avant»

Belonging to the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism (he was arguably the first champion of Jackson Pollock), Greenberg saw in that artist's personal tragedy a metaphor for the disasters of American life and art, in which people were alienated from real culture, were being forced to live off kitsch culture («one of faked sensations»... «because it was turned out mechanically») and he was resigned to the fact that at the other extreme, the so called avant - garde had taken off in another direction which was producing art for art's sake for themselves and the cultural elite.

And especially in our so - called avant garde art world we're as susceptible to cultural seeing as the truck driver or the farmer or what have you maybe a little different biases but we are culturally conditioned as well as anybody else is.

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As before, Audi's midsize model comes as a sedan and a wagon, called the Avant.

For in a very real sense, the hatred for art that now assumes the guise of so «called avant «garde art is rooted in that same iconoclastic polemic that animates every syllable of Plato and Nietzsche, not to mention a host of other art critics (in the literal sense of that word) from Origen, St. Augustine, and Blaise Pascal to those Russian commissars of art who ruled on matters of taste by diktat and ukase.

Others call it an avant - garde's assertion of creative independence in the face of capitalism and kitsch.

We've mostly rejected modernist aestheticism, art for art's sake, but we've replaced it with what I sometimes call avant - garde transgressivism, transgression for transgression's sake, critique for critique's sake, change for change's sake.

[6][9] Lewisohn, although a highly respected collector of Impressionists, was noted for calling avant - garde abstract art «unhuman».

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OGC Nice coach Claude Puel will have been boosted by the news that he can call upon defensive pair Didier Digard and Mathieu Bodmer once again, against of the south - coast's Ligue 1 clash with En Avant de Guingamp on Friday evening.

Calls for En Avant de Guingamp's in - form attacker Claudio Beauvue to be given his first international call - up have also fallen on deaf ears.

Georgia Tech is one of more than 50 institutions awarding so - called professional Master's degrees in a hundred or so, sometimes avant - garde, disciplines.

Our personal shoppers call the use of black «easy to wear and very sophisticated», and the outlandish contemporary jackets will make any outfit modern, stylish and avant - garde.

An avant - garde musician repeatedly kicks a can and calls it art, for example.

The piece proceeds in the mode of cultural studies by analysing the racial discourses surrounding the film: black rural folklorism, the representation of stereotypical black comic or menial roles in film, the commodification and packaging of black culture, and what Naremore calls «a chic, upscale «Africanism», redolent of café society, Broadway theatre, and the European avant - garde.»

You can even listen to an isolated score track, something that normally seems superfluous when offered but here calls attention to Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman's truly odd soundtrack, a blend of classical orchestration, folk and electronic effects that is not like Neil Young's squalling Dead Man score but shares its avant - garde genre application.

For avant - garde filmmakers, and especially for so - called «structural» filmmakers like the late Hollis Frampton, for whom film itself was subject, text, and subtext, the difference is key.

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Land Rover design boss Gerry McGovern said: «We call the Velar the avant - garde Range Rover.

Ingolstadt doesn't even call it a wagon — the RS4 Avant is billed as a sports car for everyday use.

«We call the Velar the avant - garde Range Rover.

Called smart forjeremy this interesting concept has been described as «an avant - garde and futuristic smart with loving details based on the overriding wing theme.»

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The British marque is calling the Velar as an «avant - garde» Range Rover, a name derived from the original Range Rover prototypes of 1969.

The new paint color for the 2017 Chrysler 300 is a monotone avant - guard - inspired gray, called Ceramic Gray Clear Coat.

Though not as potent as the Audi RS6 Avant wagon, the Audi S6 sedan does offer plenty of oomph — as expected from a vehicle with more power to call upon than many a premium sports car.

It's 60 mm longer than before and features refreshed exterior styling, a revised dashboard with a new infotainment system and gauges, as well as two new exterior colors called Midnight Emerald Blue and Avant - Garde Bronze metallic.

During the 1970s, he formed an avant - garde group called infrarealism with other writers and poets in Mexico where he lived after leaving Chile when it fell under military dictatorship.

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«He's a very interesting character I have been obsessed with for many years,» said Ganahl, who has a fan website of sorts called I Wan na Be Alfred Jarry (iwannabealfredjarry.me), which lauds the author as «not only an amazing writer, avant - garde figure, inventor, and pataphysician» but as a «fabulous bicyclist.»

They also rebuked what Rosalind Krauss in 1981 would call the «originality of the avant - garde.»

While the collection at MoMA is extensive and eclectic, very little of what might be called «avant - garde» has ever been displayed there.

Working across large - scale woodcuts, gouache paintings, so called «typewriter drawings» and ceramic sculptures, their uniquely carnivalesque visual language combines influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from the early 20th century European avant - garde.

When, many years later, Rosalind E. Krauss called the «originality of the avant - garde» a myth all along, she was simply completing the story.

The only artist to have come out of Brancusi's studio, Noguchi had unique insights into what Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart calls «that Modernist Eden of ambiguity — where traditional craft met the avant - garde, object became indistinguishable from base, and art was life.»

Rather than see herself, as so many female artists did, as failing the call of the avant - garde, she remapped its margins, recognizing that all her labors — both in the studio and in the home — were efforts made to support and preserve life's forward momentum, its future.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: Pratt Institute's Departments of Fashion and Film / Video will present the first U.S. screening of «Call it a Balance in the Unbalance,» a documentary by Regine Lettner about the tumultuous career and visionary work of avant garde fashion designer Miguel Adrover.

With a series of nine films, that together are called The Magick Lantern Cycle (created 1947 — 1981), 89 - year - old Kenneth Anger took a position as one of the American avant - garde film's most important figures.

Founded in 1887 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, what has come to be called the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University evolved, over its first century and more, from a conservative provincial art college focused on traditional landscape painting to one of the premier institutions in North America, well known for its promotion of conceptual art and the avant - garde.

He soon became deeply involved in the avant - garde community around him, founding, along with painter Mark Rothko, a group of abstract painters called «The Ten.»

Former Pittsburgher Robert Haller, now of Anthology Film Archives, wrote a book about it called Crossroads: Avant - Garde Film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s.

And does this little - known British avant - garde movement — if it can be called anything as cohesive - really deserve a major survey at Tate Britain?