Eikoh Hosoe, Photographer Who Elevated the Avant-Garde, Dies at 91
He pioneered a surrealistic narrative style in collaborations with dancers, artists and the author Yukio Mishima, with whom ...
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Surrealism Is Turning 100. See the Dreamlike Paintings That Made the Movement So Revolutionary
In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free from any ...
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The Avant-Garde Liberated 20th-Century Portraiture from Tradition. A New Paris Exhibition Shows How
Portraits of the 20th Century,” explores the pioneering work and achievement of avant-garde artists through portraiture. Including a range of movements and styles, from Fauvism and Dadaism to ...
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Women ceramicists and the Cuban avant-garde
Until now, organizers note, Cuban avant-garde (vanguardia) design has been defined as a male-dominated movement. The majority of the nearly 200 works on display in The Lost Generation are from a ...
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The Guggenheim presents a new view of Orphism—the movement that time forgot
Featuring 82 works by 26 artists, this show tells the story of the short-lived style and its main protagonists ...