Sunday 26 October 2014
What is Avant Garde?
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| Taken from www.visual-arts-cork.com/definitions/avant-garde-art.htm |
The oxford dictionary defines Avant-garde as "new and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature: he has been called a promoter of the avant-grade."
"a group of artist , musicians, or writers working with new and experimental ideas and methods: works by artist of theRussian avant-garde." (www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/avant-garde)
Avant Garde challenges our industrialised conceptions of art, showing us postmodern 'surrealistic' representations of what we're familiar with.
"most—but not all—can be identified according to the following:
1. an experimental style or form
2. a non-linear, achronological, or non-narrative story
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1. an experimental style or form
2. a non-linear, achronological, or non-narrative story
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1. What Is an Avant-Garde Film? 19
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an unusual manner of representation (of reality or otherwise)
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a particular voice/vision of the director
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poetic or lyrical flourishes
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the mixing of styles/genres
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ambiguity, in terms of characterization or narrative or thematic clo-
sure
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a decidedly different kind of demand for contrary spectatorial expec-
tations
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whenavailable/known,alternativeproduction/distribution/exhibition
practices
It goes without saying that not all of these indicators are stable, that not every avant-garde film has all or even as few as two of these characteristics. And cer- tainly other attributes may be added to this list. But on average, many avant- garde films adhere to at least one of these (mainstream films might also, but not always deliberately). " p.18/19
Examples of Avant Garde:
Filmin/animation/cinema
Avant Garde adaptation of the star wars film into a more contemporary environment, the intertextual link in this adaptation is through the iconic use of the 'Light Sabre'.
Fashion
Art
This picture is avant garde, in the sense that it challenges our structuralist expectation of this image.
This picture below on the right is an avant-garde appropriation from the collage of images to the left of it, however, its intertextual relationship might seem quite obscure.
Music
