List of avant-garde artists

Main article: Avant Garde
Pablo Picasso 1962

Avant-garde (French pronunciation: ​[avɑ̃ ɡaʁd]) is French for "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.

Avant Garde: Visual artists

Henri Matisse, 1933, photo by Carl Van Vechten
Joan Miró 1935, photo by Carl Van Vechten
Constantin Brâncuși, 1922, photo by Edward Steichen

Avant Garde: Architects

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954, photo: Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and Sun

Avant Garde: Jazz, composers, performance artists

Igor Stravinsky, 1921
Duke Ellington 1965, on tour, Frankfurt, Germany
Philip Glass, 1993 in Florence
Steve Reich, 2006
Buckethead

Avant Garde: authors, playwrights, actors, directors (theater) and poets

James Joyce, c. 1918, Photo by C. Ruf, Zurich
Carl Van Vechten, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1934

Avant garde: photographers, filmmakers, video artists, directors

Salvador Dalí and Man Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934 making "wild eyes" for photographer Carl Van Vechten
Lithuanian artist Jonas Mekas, regarded as godfather of American avant-garde cinema

Avant garde: Dancers and Choreographers

Isadora Duncan performing barefoot. Photo by Arnold Genthe ca. 1915-1918
Martha Graham, Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948

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References

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  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Constantin Brancusi" at brainjuice.com. (Accessed March 27, 2007.)
  4. ↑ Artcyclopedia - Links to Braque's works and information
  5. ↑ Giorgio de Chirico in the Museum of Modern Art
  6. ↑ Jean Dubuffet at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  7. ↑ Calvin Tomkins: Duchamp: A Biography.
  8. ↑ Naum Gabo at the Tate Gallery Archive
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ James Lord (1997) Giacometti: A Biography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux* Alberto Giacometti. Kunsthaus Zürich, 2001; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2001-2002.
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  14. ↑ Willem de Kooning, Britannica.com, p1
  15. ↑ Mayakovsky, Vladimir; El Lissitzky (2000). For the Voice (Dlia golosa). The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-13377-6.
  16. ↑ Guggenheim: Kazimir Malevich
  17. ↑ http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A3787
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  19. ↑ Hans Locher: Piet Mondrian. Colour, Structure, and Symbolism. Bern-Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 1994. ISBN 978-3-906127-44-6
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  21. ↑ Barnett Newman Selected Writings and Interviews, (ed.) by John P. O'Neill, University of California Press, 1990.
  22. ↑ Roxana Robinson. 1990. Georgia O'Keeffe: A life. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 0-7475-0557-8
  23. ↑ Oldenburg Biography at the Guggenheim Museum
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  25. ↑ Marlena Donohue (28 November 1997). "Rauschenberg's Signature on the Century". Christian Science Monitor. 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.
  26. ↑ Ad Reinhardt bio at Guggenheim Museum site
  27. ↑ Frank Stella Biography, Guggenheim Museum
  28. ↑ Wolf Vostell at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne
  29. ↑ Andy Warhol at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  30. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/albert-ayler-p6036/biography Albert Ayler Biography at AllMusic
  31. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/claude-debussy-q7223 Information about Claude Debussy
  32. ↑ http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/ives.php Charles Ives at Classical Net
  33. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/igor-stravinsky-q8016/biography Stravinsky bio at Allmusic
  34. ↑ "Meshuggah". Nuclear Blast. Archived from the original on 2008-05-10. Retrieved 2008-06-10.

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