List of avant-garde artists
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Avant-garde (pronounced /ɑvɑ̃ gɑʁd/) in French means "front guard", "advance guard", or "vanguard".[1] The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture.
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. Postmodernism posits that the age of the constant pushing of boundaries is no longer with us and that avant-garde has little to no applicability in the age of Postmodern art.
[edit] Avant Garde: Visual Artist
- Joseph Beuys (German Artist)[2]
- Constantin Brancusi (sculptor)[3]
- Georges Braque (painter)[4]
- Giorgio de Chirico (painter)[5]
- Marcel Duchamp (French artist)[6]
- Naum Gabo (sculptor)[7]
- Alberto Giacometti (sculptor)[8]
- Julio González (sculptor)[9]
- Wassily Kandinsky (Russian artist)[10]
- Damien Hirst (painter/sculptor)
- Allan Kaprow (painter/happenings)[11]
- Roger Kemp (Pioneer Australian abstractionist)
- Willem de Kooning (painter)[12]
- El Lissitzky (Russian artist)[13]
- Kazimir Malevich (Russian artist)[14]
- Henri Matisse (painter)[15]
- Piet Mondrian (Dutch artist)[16]
- Henry Moore (sculptor)[17]
- Barnett Newman (painter)[18]
- Georgia O'Keeffe (American artist)[19]
- Claes Oldenburg (sculptor)[20]
- Yoko Ono (Japanese-American sculptor/installation artist/musician)
- Francis Picabia (painter)
- Pablo Picasso (painter and sculptor)
- Antoine Pevsner (sculptor)
- Jackson Pollock (painter)[21]
- Robert Rauschenberg (painter)[22]
- Ad Reinhardt (painter)[23]
- Alexander Rodchenko (Russian artist)
- Olga Rozanova (Russian artist)
- David Smith (sculptor)
- Kenneth Snelson (sculptor)
- Frank Stella (painter)[24]
- Vladimir Tatlin (Russian artist)
- Sergei Tretyakov (Russian artist)
- Andy Warhol (painter)[25]
[edit] Avant Garde:Architects
- Steve Baer
- Le Corbusier
- Norman Foster
- Buckminster Fuller
- Frank Geary
- Walter Gropius
- Louis Kahn
- Rem Koolhaas
- I. M. Pei
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Eero Saarinen
- Ettore Sottsass
- Frank Lloyd Wright
[edit] Avant Garde:Jazz, composers, performance artists
- Laurie Anderson (American composer)
- Louis Armstrong (American pioneer of jazz)
- John Balance (Music Composer, poet)
- Graham Bowers (British artist and composer)
- Glenn Branca (American guitarist and composer)
- Harold Budd (American composer)
- John Cage (American composer)
- Les Claypool (American musician, singer, bassist, film maker, novelist, composer)
- Ornette Coleman (American jazz musician)
- John Coltrane (American jazz musician)
- Ivor Cutler (Scottish avant-musician and poet)
- Miles Davis (American jazz musician)
- Eric Dolphy (American jazz musician)
- Brian Eno (English musician and composer)
- Morton Feldman (American composer)
- Diamanda Galás (American Musician, composer and performance artist)
- Philip Glass (American composer)
- Dave Holland (British jazz musician)
- Roland Kirk (American jazz musician)
- Bill Laswell (Avant-Garde musician)
- Lydia Lunch (American singer, poet, writer and actress)
- Angus MacLise (American percussionist)
- Charles Mingus (American jazz musician)
- Thelonius Monk (American jazz musician)
- Max Neuhaus (composer)
- Mike Oldfield (English composer)
- Yoko Ono (Japanese artist and musician)
- Mike Patton (American musician, singer and composer)
- Pharoah Sanders (American jazz musician)
- Archie Shepp (American jazz musician)
- Sun Ra (Free jazz innovator)
- Steve Reich (American composer)
- Terry Riley (American composer)
- Arthur Russell (American musician, singer and composer)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (German composer)
- Igor Stravinsky (Russian composer)
- Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Armenian vocalist, multiinstrumentalist)
- Aphex Twin (electronica)
- Edgard Varèse (French composer, later naturalized American citizen)
- Igor Wakhevitch (French composer)
- Robert Wyatt (English singer and songwriter)
- Iannis Xenakis (Greek composer and architect)
- La Monte Young (American composer)
- Frank Zappa (American composer, guitarist and satirist)
[edit] Avant Garde: bands/musicians
- Autopsia (Czech post-industrial band)
- Beck (alternative singer)
- Captain Beefheart (experimental rock singer)
- Boredoms (Japanese noise band)
- Arthur Brown (English rock singer and performer)
- Buckethead (American composer and guitarist)
- John Cale (Welsh musician)
- Can (Avant-garde rock band)
- Chris Connelly (Alternative singer and songwriter)
- Einstürzende Neubauten (German industrial band)
- John Frusciante (American guitarist and songwriter)
- Peter Gabriel (Art-Rock singer)
- Kayo Dot (American avant-rock band)
- Public Image Ltd (British post-punk band)
- The Residents (American avant-rock band)
- Sigh (Japanese avant-garde black metal band)
- They Might Be Giants (Alternative Band)
- Ours To Destroy (avant-garde folk rock band)
- Sonic Youth (American alternative band)
- Throbbing Gristle (experimental Industrial Band)
- Unexpect (Canadian avant-garde metal group)
- The Velvet Underground (protopunk, avant-garde, taboo drones)
- John Zorn (American musician and composer)
- Patti Smith (American singer)
[edit] Avant Garde: authors, playwrights, actors, directors (theater) and poets
- JoAnne Akalaitis (writer/director/ Mabou Mines)
- Antonin Artaud (French playwright)
- James Graham Ballard (British author)
- Julian Beck (actor/director/ The Living Theater)
- Samuel Beckett (Irish playwright)
- André Breton (French author)
- William S. Burroughs (author, poet, essayist)
- Jim Carroll (avant-garde poet)
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine (author)
- Gregory Corso (experimental Beat poet)
- E. E. Cummings (poet)
- Jeffrey Daniels (American Poet)
- Guy Debord (French artist and philosopher)
- Akasegawa Genpei (Japanese artist and novelist)
- Allen Ginsberg (poet)
- James Joyce (writer)
- Lajos Kassák (1887-1967, Hungarian avant-garde poet and painter)
- Srečko Kosovel (Slovene poet)
- Judith Malina (actor/director/ The Living Theater)
- Henry Miller (author)
- Anaïs Nin (French diarist, author, poet)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French author, playwright, filmmaker)
- Gertrude Stein ((author, essayist)
- Ellen Stewart (theater director/ La MaMa)
- Tristan Tzara (Romanian poet)
- William Carlos Williams (American poet)
- Robert Wilson (director)
[edit] Avant garde: photographers, filmmakers, video artists, directors
- John Abraham 1937-1987 (Indian Movie Director)
- Kenneth Anger (American filmmaker)
- Diane Arbus (American photographer)
- Matthew Barney (American performance artist, filmmaker, photographer)
- Stan Brakhage (American filmmaker)
- Luis Buñuel (Spanish filmmaker)
- Jean Cocteau (French poet, artist, filmmaker)
- Tony Conrad (American video artist, experimental filmmaker)
- Maya Deren (American filmmaker)
- Jean-Luc Godard (French filmmaker)
- Ken Jacobs (American filmmaker)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (director)
- David Lynch (American filmmaker)
- Robert Mapplethorpe (American photographer)
- Jonas Mekas (American filmmaker)
- Mamoru Oshii (Japanese filmmaker)
- Man Ray (American/French, photographer and filmmaker)
- Alain Resnais (French filmmaker)
- Jean Rouch Ethnographic filmmaker
- Jack Smith (American filmmaker)
- Andy Warhol (American artist)
- Fred Worden (American filmmaker)
[edit] Avant garde: Dancers and Choreographers
- Loie Fuller (pioneer of modern dance)
- Isadora Duncan (pioneer of modern dance)
- Vaslav Nijinsky (pioneer of modern dance)
- Léonide Massine (pioneer of modern dance)
- Ruth St. Denis (pioneer of modern dance)
- Ted Shawn (pioneer of modern dance)
- Doris Humphrey (pioneer of modern dance)
- Charles Weidman (pioneer of modern dance)
- Hanya Holm (pioneer of modern dance)
- Martha Graham (American dancer, choreographer)
- Merce Cunningham (American dancer, choreographer)
- Alwin Nikolais (American dancer, choreographer)
[edit] Other
- James Lee (Korean anthropologist)
- Yuri Landman (Experimental instrument builder)
[edit] See also
- Russian avant-garde
- Bohemianism
- Intelligentsia
- Experimental film
- Experimental music
- Experimental theatre
- Experimental literature
- Modernism
[edit] Sources
- Cage, John. 1961. Silence: Lectures and Writings. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. Unaltered reprints: Weslyan University press, 1966 (pbk), 1967 (cloth), 1973 (pbk ["First Wesleyan paperback edition"], 1975 (unknown binding); Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971; London: Calder & Boyars, 1968, 1971, 1973 ISBN 0714505269 (cloth) ISBN 0714510432 (pbk). London: Marion Boyars, 1986, 1999 ISBN: 0714510432 (pbk); [n.p.]: Reprint Services Corporation, 1988 (cloth) ISBN 9991178015 [In particular the essays "Experimental Music", pp. 7–12, and "Experimental Music: Doctrine", pp. 13–17.]
- Cope, David. 1997. Techniques of the Contemporary Composer. New York, New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-864737-8.
- Mauceri, Frank X. 1997. "From Experimental Music to Musical Experiment". Perspectives of New Music 35, no. 1 (Winter): 187-204.
- Meyer, Leonard B. 1994. Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-52143-5
- Nicholls, David. 1998. "Avant-garde and Experimental Music." In Cambridge History of American Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521454298
- Nyman, Michael. 1974. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0028712005. Second edition, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0521652979
- A. L. Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video (BFI, 1999).
- Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond (MIT, 1977).
- Scott MacDonald, A Critical Cinema, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 1992 and 1998).
- Scott MacDonald, Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
- James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avant-Garde Cinema (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994).
- Jack Sargeant, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema (Creation, 1997).
- P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
- Michael O’Pray, Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions (London: Wallflower Press, 2003).
- David Curtis (ed.), A Directory of British Film and Video Artists (Arts Council, 1999).
- David Curtis, Experimental Cinema - A Fifty Year Evolution. (London. Studio Vista. 1971)
- Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema. (Albany, NY. State University of New York Press, 1997)
- Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.) Experimental Cinema - The Film Reader, (London: Routledge, 2002)
- Stan Brakhage. Film at Wit's End - Essays on American Independent Filmmakers. (Edinburgh, Polygon. 1989)
- Stan Brakhage. Essential Brakhage - Selected Writings on Filmmaking. (New York, McPherson. 2001)
- Parker Tyler, Underground Film: A Critical History. (New York: Grove Press, 1969)
- Saunders, Frances Stonor, The cultural cold war: the CIA and the world of arts and letters (New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2000) ISBN 1-56584-596-X
- O'Connor, Francis V. Jackson Pollock [exhibition catalogue] (New York, Museum of Modern Art, [1967]) OCLC 165852
- The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism 1940-1960 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000 ISBN 0-521-65154-9
- Tapié, Michel. Hans Hofmann: peintures 1962 : 23 avril-18 mai 1963. (Paris: Galerie Anderson-Mayer, 1963.) [exhibition catalogue and commentary] OCLC: 62515192
- Tapié, Michel. Pollock (Paris, P. Facchetti, 1952) OCLC: 30601793
- Jeffrey Wechsler (2007). Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries. ISBN 0-9759954-9-9.
- Graham, Martha (1991). Blood Memory: An autobiography. NYC: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-26503-4.
- Freedman, Russell (1998). Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life. NYC: Clarion Books. ISBN 0-395-74655-8.
- Horosko, Marian (2002). Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training. Gainesville, FL: Univ. Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2473-0.
- Morgan, Barbara (1980). Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs. Morgan & Morgan. ISBN 0-87100-176-4.
- Tracy, Robert (1997). Goddess - Martha Graham's Dancers Remember. Pompton Plains, NJ: Limelight Editions. ISBN 0-87910-086-9.
- Bird, Dorothy; Greenberg, Joyce (2002 reprint). Bird's Eye View: Dancing With Martha Graham and on Broadway. Pittsburgh, PA: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5791-4.
[edit] References
- ^ Avant-garde definitions. Dictionary.com. Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
- ^ See Claudia Schmuckli: ‘Chronology and Selected Exhibition History,’ in Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments (Tate, 2005).This account of Beuys’s biography is indebted to Schmuckli’s chronology.
- ^ "Constantin Brancusi" at brainjuice.com. (Accessed March 27, 2007.)
- ^ Artcyclopedia - Links to Braque's works and information
- ^ Giorgio de Chirico in the Museum of Modern Art
- ^ Calvin Tomkins: Duchamp: A Biography.
- ^ Naum Gabo at the Tate Gallery Archive
- ^ James Lord (1997) Giacometti: A Biography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux* Alberto Giacometti. Kunsthaus Zürich, 2001; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2001-2002.
- ^ Guggenheim Museum biography
- ^ Hajo Düchting. Wassily Kandinsky 1866–1944: A Revolution in Painting. (Taschen, 2000). ISBN 3-8228-5982-6
- ^ Cotter, Holland (November 19, 1999), “ART IN REVIEW; Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts -- 'Experiments in the Everyday'”, The New York Times, <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E5D6173CF93AA25752C1A96F958260&fta=y>. Retrieved on 29 April 2008
- ^ Willem de Kooning, Britannica.com, p1
- ^ Mayakovsky, Vladimir; El Lissitzky (2000). For the Voice (Dlia golosa). The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-13377-6.
- ^ Guggenheim: Kazimir Malevich
- ^ Hilary Spurling. The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 1, 1869-1908. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998. ISBN 0-679-43428-3.
- ^ Hans Locher: Piet Mondrian. Colour, Structure, and Symbolism. Bern-Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 1994. ISBN 978-3-906127-44-6
- ^ Review in Sculpture Magazine
- ^ Barnett Newman Selected Writings and Interviews, (ed.) by John P. O'Neill, University of California Press, 1990.
- ^ Roxana Robinson. 1990. Georgia O'Keeffe: A life. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 0-7475-0557-8
- ^ Oldenburg Biography at the Guggenheim Museum
- ^ Piper, David. The Illustrated History of Art, ISBN 0753701790, p460-461.
- ^ Marlena Donohue. "Rauschenberg's Signature on the Century", Christian Science Monitor, 28 November, 1997. "Rauschenberg's mammoth career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (and other New York sites) from Sept. 19 to Jan. 7, 1998… along with longtime friends pre-Pop painter Jasper Johns and the late conceptual composer John Cage, Rauschenberg pretty much defined the technical and philosophic art landscape and its offshoots after Abstract Expressionism."
- ^ Ad Reinhardt bio at Guggenheim Museum site
- ^ Frank Stella Biography, Guggenheim Museum
- ^ Andy Warhol at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
