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The Avant-Garde
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 (duo), 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 * Advance guard The vanguard (sometimes abbreviated to van and also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde
In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an ''advance guard'' identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and Surrealism were ahead of their times. As a stratum of the intelligentsia of a society, avant-garde artists promote progressive and radical politics and advocate for societal reform with and through works of art. In the essay "The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist" (1825), Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues's political usage of ''vanguard'' identified the moral obligation of artists to "ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-Garde (magazine)
''Avant Garde'' was a magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ... 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 S ... [...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 characte ... [...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 Jersey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milice
The (French Militia), generally called (; ), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy France, Vichy régime (with Nazi Germany, German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The Milice's formal head was Vichy France's Prime Minister Pierre Laval (in office 1942 to 1944), although its chief of operations and ''de facto'' leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand. The participated in summary executions and assassinations, helping to round up Jews and in France for deportation. It was the successor to Darnand's (SOL) militia (founded in 1941). The was the Vichy régime's most extreme manifestation of fascism. Ultimately, Darnand envisaged the as a fascist One-party state, single-party political movement for the État Français , French State. members frequently used torture to extract information or confessions from those whom they interrogated. The French Resistance considered the more dangerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaila Avant-garde
Zaila Avant-garde 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 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 the 2021 competition, she won the title by correctly spelling "Murraya". The first place comes with $50,000 in cash and prizes. Due to pandem ... [...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. The biggest distinction between avant-garde and experimental music was how it relates to tradition. Other distinctions include subject matter, as well as having a superficial idea to avoid diving into serious subjects. Even though avant-garde and experimental music have many distinctions, experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Jazz
Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") 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 the late 1960s. One of the earliest developments within avant-garde jazz was that of free jazz, and the two terms were originally synonymous. Much avant-garde jazz is stylistically distinct, however, in that it lacks free jazz's thoroughly improvised nature and is either fully or partially composed. History 1950s While some avant-garde jazz concepts were originally developed in the late 1940s(such as the collective free improvisation on Lennie Tristano's 1949 works of "Intuition" and "Digression"), the advent of avant-garde jazz (synonymous with free jazz at the time) is usually considered to be sometime in the mid- to late 1950s. As a genre, avant-garde jazz was founded among a group of improvisors who rejected the conventions of bebop and post ... [...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, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avant-Garde (duo)
The Avant-Garde was an American psychedelic pop duo 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 played 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. Woolery Woolery became a country music art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant Garde (band)
Rivers Cuomo ( ; born June 13, 1970) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer. Cuomo was born in New York City and raised in several Buddhist communities in the northeastern U.S. until the age of 10 when his family settled in Connecticut. He played in several bands in Connecticut and California before forming Weezer in 1992. After the success of Weezer's debut, the ''Blue Album'' (1994)'','' Cuomo enrolled at Harvard University, but dropped out after recording Weezer's second album, ''Pinkerton'' (1996). He later re-enrolled and graduated in 2006. Though ''Pinkerton'' is now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s and has been certified platinum, it was initially a commercial and critical failure, pushing Cuomo's songwriting toward pop music for Weezer's next album, the '' Green Album'' (2001). Weezer has released more than a dozen albums since. Cuomo has released several compilations of demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avantgarde (band)
Avantgarde was an indie rock band from Madrid, Spain. They scored two albums and toured across Spain and Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ... with the Spanish musician Deluxe. Discography Albums *''Super L'' (April 2004) *''Read Between the Lines'' (April 2005) Singles *"Awake" (March 2004) *"Dostoievski" (July 2004) *"Are you playing a game?" (March 2005) *"Ink" (March 2006) References External linksAvantgarde Official website Musical groups established in 2003 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
