Has avant-garde fashion gone the way of the hobble skirt? It would seem so at a time when the biggest names are playing it safe, few young designers are touting unorthodox clothing styles and ...

The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions, oscillating between excitement at its glamour and scorn at its pretensions. The term carries an association of being daring, ...

This past November, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, sponsored a three-day “international” conference entitled “Avant-Garde Art and Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of Modernism.” As ...

The extraordinary festival of formal inventiveness that has dominated the architectural world since the 1980s—a festival that was initially stimulated by opposition to the historicist Postmodernism of ...

In 1967, in the course of a visit to Moscow, I was entertained one evening in the apartment of a young man who seemed to know a lot about the life of art in the Soviet Union at that time. He may also ...

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

IN MÉDIATIONS, no.4, Lucien Goldmann, recently turned critic specializing in the cultural avant-garde, speaks of an "avant-garde of absence," one that expresses in art and style a certain rejection of ...

Roosevelt needed to get America ready to fight and he already knew that his efforts to help unemployed Americans find themselves in social realist art would have to be abandoned. American art had to ...

It was my last day in Copenhagen and I had already been to the zoo and was rushing to a tasting of mummified roe deer, fried bee larvae and moth cheese. The taxi from the zoo stopped on the pier ...

A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem. By Clay Risen See more of our coverage in ...