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Avant-garde (other)
Avant-garde refers to a style in experimental work in art, music, culture, or politics. Avant-garde may also refer to: * ''Avant-Garde'' (magazine), a graphic design magazine * ITC Avant Garde, a typeface * Avant-Garde Computing, a defunct networking software company * Avant-Garde, youth section of the French Milice paramilitary organization * Zaila Avant-garde, winner of 2021 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee Music * Avant-garde music * Avant-garde jazz * ''The Avant-Garde'' (album), an album by John Coltrane and Don Cherry * The Avant-Garde, a 1960s American pop group * Avant Garde (band), a 1980s American progressive metal band * Avantgarde (band), a 2000s Spanish indie rock band * Avant-garde metal, a subgenre of heavy metal music * Avantgarde Music, an Italian record label See also * Avant-pop * Lists of avant-garde films This is chronological list of avant-garde film, avant-garde and experimental films split by decade. Often there may be considerable overlap par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), p. 64 . It is frequently characterized by aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability.Kostelanetz, Richard, ''A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes'', Routledge, May 13, 2013 The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the '' |
Avant-Garde (magazine)
''Avant Garde'' was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971. The magazine was based in New York City. The editor was Ralph Ginzburg and this was the third collaboration with Lubalin. Previously they worked on ''Eros'' and ''Fact''. ''Avant Garde'' 3, published in May 1968, lists in the masthead: Peter Schjeldahl as Features Editor, Leslie M. Pockell as Articles Editor, Lawrence Witchel, Executive Editor, L. Ransom Burton, Copy Editor, Rosemary Latimore, Research Director, Art Whitman, Production Director, Miriam Fier, Business Director, Paul Finegold handled circulation, Advertising was managed by Richard Stoneman, and Shoshanna Ginzburg was Promotion Director. From January 1968 through July 1971, Ginzburg published ''Avant Garde''. While it could not be termed obscene, it was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITC Avant Garde
ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a geometric sans serif font family based on the logo font used in the ''Avant Garde'' magazine. Herb Lubalin devised the logo concept and its companion headline typeface, and then he and Tom Carnase, a partner in Lubalin's design firm, worked together to transform the idea into a full-fledged typeface. The condensed fonts were drawn by Ed Benguiat in 1974, and the obliques were designed by , Erich Gschwind and in 1977. The original designs include one version for setting headlines and one for text copy. However, in the initial digitization, only the text design was chosen, and the ligatures and alternate characters were not included. The font family consists of five weights (four for condensed), with complementary obliques for widest width fonts. When ITC released the OpenType version of the font, the original 33 alternate characters and ligatures, plus extra characters were included. Elsner+Flake also issued the ligatures and alternate character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-Garde Computing
Avant-Garde Computing, Inc. was a publicly traded American software and computer hardware company active from 1978 to 1990 and based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. It was most well known for its Net/Command, Net/Adviser, Net/Alert, and Net/Guard suite of network management, monitoring, and security products. The company was acquired by Boole & Babbage in 1990 after a five-year string of losses. Beginning Avant-Garde Computing was founded by Timothy P. Ahlstrom and F. Morgan LaMarche and incorporated in 1978. Ahlstrom and LaMarche were previously 20 year veterans of IBM, both working in that company's marketing department. In their off-time in the early 1970s, the duo built a device that would warn computer operators when a data tape was close to the end of its reel, founding Ahlstrom LaMarche & Co. to market it. The device proliferated rapidly in the computer rooms of various companies, and the duo later sold their company and its patents to Telegentics of Cherry Hill, New Jerse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milice
The ''Milice française'' (French Militia), generally called ''la Milice'' (literally ''the militia'') (), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The Milice's formal head was Prime Minister Pierre Laval, although its Chief of operations and ''de facto'' leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand. It participated in summary executions and assassinations, helping to round up Jews and ''résistants'' in France for deportation. It was the successor to Darnand's '' Service d'ordre légionnaire'' (SOL) militia. The Milice was the Vichy regime's most extreme manifestation of fascism. Ultimately, Darnand envisaged the Milice as a fascist single party political movement for the French state. The Milice frequently used torture to extract information or confessions from those whom they interrogated. The French Resistance considered the Milice more dang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaila Avant-garde
Zaila Avant-garde (born February 9, 2007) is an American speller, basketball player, and juggler. She won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee. She is the first African-American contestant to win the bee and is the second Black winner, after Jamaica's Jody-Anne Maxwell. Life Avant-garde was born on February 9, 2007, in Harvey, Louisiana, the daughter of Alma Heard and Jawara Spacetime. Her father chose her last name to honor John Coltrane. She has cited Malala Yousafzai, Serena Williams, and Coco Gauff as inspirations. Her basketball heroes include Stephen Curry, James Harden, Diana Taurasi, Kevin Durant and Maya Moore. Spelling bee Avant-garde reached the national level in the 2019 Bee. She used a study resource called SpellPundit to learn about 12,000 words per day. Her coach was former Scripps finalist, Cole Shafer-Ray, who also coached the runner-up, Chaitra Thummala. In 2020 she won the Kaplan Online Spelling Bee, created when Scripps cancelled its Bee due to the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee
The 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Bay Lake, Florida. The finals were held on July 8, 2021, and televised on ESPN2 and ESPN. It was won by Zaila Avant-garde, the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and the second black person to do so (after Jody-Anne Maxwell of Jamaica). Field Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 spelling bee has been cancelled for the previous year. For 2021, the first round was held virtually on June 12 and had 209 spellers from the United States and several other countries. There were eleven finalists: ten Americans and one Bahamian, the first from his country to make it to the final. Competition Jill Biden, the current First Lady of the United States, attended in person. She previously attended back in 2009. The competition went 18 rounds in total. The third-to-last speller was eliminated in round 14 after misspelling ''athanor'', a type of alchemical furnace. Ava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Music
Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences. Avant-garde music may be distinguished from experimental music by the way it adopts an extreme position within a certain tradition, whereas experimental music lies outside tradition. Distinctions Avant-garde music may be distinguished from experimental music by the way it adopts an extreme position within a certain tradition, whereas experimental music lies outside tradition. In a historical sense, some musicologists use the term "avant-garde music" for the radical compositions that succeeded the death of Anton Webern in 1945, Paul Du Noyer (ed.), "Contemporary", in the ''Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music: From Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues and Hip Hop to Classical, Folk, Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Jazz
Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz and experimental jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz was distinct from that style. History 1950s Avant-garde jazz originated in the mid- to late 1950s among a group of improvisors who rejected the conventions of bebop and post bop in an effort to blur the division between the written and the spontaneous. Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor led the way, soon to be joined by John Coltrane. Some would come to apply it differently from free jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians dur ..., emphasizing structure and organization by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avant-Garde (album)
''The Avant-Garde'' is an album credited to jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry that was released in 1966 by Atlantic Records. It features Coltrane playing several compositions by Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of Coleman's quartet: Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. The album was assembled from two unissued recording sessions at Atlantic Studios in New York City in 1960. Background Ornette Coleman attended the Lenox School of Jazz in 1959 with Don Cherry. His education was sponsored by Atlantic Records. Coleman had a revolutionary sound that deviated from conventional jazz (apparent by the lack of harmonies). Despite his deviations, Coleman retained the basic key and common time of traditional jazz. In 1953, he met drummer Ed Blackwell, who is featured on the album. John Coltrane studied with Coleman, and they frequently played together but never made an album together. ''The Avant-Garde'' is a result of their mutual respect and friendship. Coltrane, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avant-Garde
The Avant-Garde was an American psychedelic pop group formed by Chuck Woolery and Elkin "Bubba" Fowler in 1967. They released three singles on Columbia Records in 1967 and 1968, backed by different session musicians on each release: "Yellow Beads", "Naturally Stoned" (which hit No. 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in mid-1968),Biography Allmusic.com and "Fly with Me!" Despite the success of "Naturally Stoned", the group disbanded after "Fly with Me!" and never released a full album. Careers after The Avant-Garde disbanded Fowler After The Avant-Garde disbanded, Fowler went on to a career as a folk singer. Columbia released his LP ''And Then Came Bubba'' in 1970. He played guitar on albums by Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Fowler plays on the track "Avalanche" by Leonard Cohen, featured on the album ''Original Seeds: Songs That Inspired Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds''. Ron Cornelius and Charlie Daniels also played on the track. DiscogVarious – Original Seeds: Songs Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant Garde (band)
Rivers Cuomo ( ; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. Cuomo was raised in a number of Buddhist communities in the Northeast U.S. until the age of 10, when his family settled in Central Connecticut. He attended a number of public schools before moving to Los Angeles at age 18. Cuomo played in several bands in Connecticut and California before forming Weezer in 1992. Following the success of Weezer's self-titled debut album and the following tour, Cuomo spent time away from music. Convalescing after leg surgery, he enrolled at Harvard University, but dropped out to record Weezer's second album, ''Pinkerton'' (1996); he would later graduate from Harvard in 2006. Though ''Pinkerton'' was initially a commercial and critical failure and forced Cuomo to write more pop-based material, it is now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s and has been certified platinum. Cuomo has relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
