Sentences with phrase «garde cultural movements»

Manhattan at that time was a melting pot of contemporary avant - garde cultural movements: Pop artists and abstract expressionists, jazz musicians and experimental actors, novelists and film directors, socialised, collaborated, had affairs, marriages, fist fights and ideological spats.

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[56]: 43 What, however, can be said, is that it was a movement that developed in the early 20th century mainly in Germany in reaction to the dehumanizing effect of industrialization and the growth of cities, and that «one of the central means by which expressionism identifies itself as an avant - garde movement, and by which it marks its distance to traditions and the cultural institution as a whole is through its relationship to realism and the dominant conventions of representation.»

Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974 — 1985 will introduce the work of three unofficial Chinese art groups who worked in this vein: the No Names, the Stars, and the Grass Society, all of which arose following the end of the Cultural Revolution and helped launch the avant - garde movement in China.