Avant Garde
Mystery Illustration 112
What Shakespeare play--one of the more famous--does this production with its bizarre costumes portray?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 12, 2023 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Theater and Stage, Avant Garde, 1950s
Tenjō Sajiki
A small sampling of the avant-garde theater of the troupe named Tenjō Sajiki. Their Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 11, 2023 -
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Category: Theater and Stage, Avant Garde, Asia, Twentieth Century
Punch and Judy: The Opera
The Wikipedia page for the opera.The work caused great controversy with members of the audience, because of the violence of the plot and the nature of the music. Benjamin Britten was reported to have left the premiere at the interval.[3]
The composer's Wikipedia page.
Birtwistle's music is complex, written in a modernistic manner with a clear, distinctive voice, with sounds described as of "sonic brashness".[10]
Your reactions solicited.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 31, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde, Myths and Fairytales, 1960s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 51
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 18, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, Russia, Twentieth Century
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 50
The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 24, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, 1960s, Russia
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 49
Eugène Brands: De Tang - The Pincers signed and dated '8/51
The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 08, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1950s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 47
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 27, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1950s, Europe, Russia
Toshi Ichiyanagi, RIP
The avant-garde composer was Yoko Ono's first husband, with, apparently, a similar flair for the experimental.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 10, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde, Obituaries, Asia, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 46
Two links to the Wikipedia pages of the Themersons, husband and wife team of avant-gardists.Small essay here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 31, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Movies, Twentieth Century
“Kuzu” by Iimura Takahiko
‘Iimura films the cadavers of daily objects (junk) and animals without heads, cats, dogs or birds. While boats float calmly in the distance and children run along the beach, all kinds of larvae and insects move from old tatamis to old bottles under a “rain” of scratches caused by the numerous projections that the original film underwent.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 03, 2022 -
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Category: Garbage, Trash, Waste and Other Detritus, Movies, Avant Garde, 1960s, Asia
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