The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. Until now, of course.
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posted by carsonb
on Jun 28, 2011 -
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MOMA has around 400 images from its collection of illustrated books available online. It's heavy on the works of the early 20th Century European avant-garde, especially the Russian Futurists, though it extends into the present day. Here are a few of the images that I liked:
Aleksei Krucenykh and Kirill Zdanevich,
Vladimir Mayakovsky,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
Olga Rozanova,
Ekaterina Turova,
El Lissitzky,
Max Ernst,
Raymond Pettibon,
Vasily Kandinsky and
Natalia Goncharova.
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posted by Kattullus
on Dec 13, 2007 -
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Else Marie Pade (b. 1924) is a phenomenon in the history of Danish music. As a child she was often ill and bedridden. She would listen to the sounds around her... on the stairs, from the yard and the room next to hers. This is where her audio universe began. During the Second World War, she was arrested by the Gestapo and placed in solitary confinement. Rather than despair, she began composing music on the bare prison walls, where she scratched the notes with the fasteners on her garters. After the war and her discovery of the concrete music of Pierre Schaeffer and the French avant-garde, she realized that the sounds resembled those she had heard in childhood, and that this was the music she really wanted to compose.
Read a long interview with Else Marie Pade here and
listen to her collected works here.
(Last link in Danish. Left column is production year, middle column is title. Click the bit rates on the right to listen to each work.)
posted by sveskemus
on Jul 30, 2007 -
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Kiki de Montparnasse aka
Alice Ernestine Prin was a French country girl down on her luck in early 20th century Paris. She would however become a great muse of the avant-garde art scene of the
Années Folles, posing for and befriending the likes of
Chaim Soutine,
Moise Kisling,
Amedeo Modigliani,
Utrillo,
Foujita,
Calder,
Per Krogh,
Pascin, and, most famously,
Man Ray, with whom he entertained a steady (if not particularly monogamous) relationship before
Lee Miller. During their tumultuous eight-year romance, Kiki was the model for several of his
most famous works (with some
Surrealist art films thrown in for good measure).
She also competed with
Jean Cocteau for the affections of sailors in Southern France, was a good friend of
Tristan Tzara and received letters of support of
Aragon and
Desnos when she was jailed for public disorder.
A life of excess that ultimately led to her early death in destitution in 1953 also provided stuff for
several biographies (the latest one, appropriately enough, a graphic novel), as well as a
Hemingway-prefaced
autobiography which was banned for obscenity in the US until the '70s, and the odd
art exhibition...
posted by Skeptic
on Mar 30, 2007 -
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