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Topic Avant Garde/Surrealism : 130 results | page 1 of 13
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Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism - Franklin Rosemont
The decade that gave the world Krazy Kat, Rube Goldberg, and Buster Keaton also marked the emergence of Jacques Vaché. A bold jaywalker at the crossroads of history, and an ardent exemplar of freedom and revolt, Vaché challenged all prevailing values, from church and state to white supremacy, and was especially gifted at the fine art of ridiculing the dominant ethics and aesthetics of the emerg...
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Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism - Franklin Rosemont
THE DECADE that gave the world Krazy Kat, Rube Goldberg, and Buster Keaton also marked the emergence of Jacques Vaché. A bold jaywalker at the crossroads of history, and an ardent exemplar of freedom and revolt, Vaché challenged all prevailing values, from church and state to white supremacy, and was especially gifted at the fine art of ridiculing the dominant ethics and aesthetics of the emerg...
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Guernica: A Political Odyssey - Francis Frascina (Contributor), Allan Antliff (Contributor), Patricia Leighten (Contributor), Maria Garcia Yelo (Contributor), Emily McGiffen (Contributor), and Wolf Edwards (Music By)
Allan Antliff discusses the political history of Picasso's most famous painting from its inception during the Spanish Civil War to the Iraq War of 2003. It is modern art's most powerful antiwar statement. Inspired by Franco's atrocities against the civilian population of a little Basque village, Picasso's painting stirs up controversy to this day.

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Art, Anarchy and Activism - Allan Antliff (Contributor), Josh MacPhee (Contributor), Norman Nawrocki (Contributor), Mecca Normal (Contributor), Kevin C Pyle (Contributor), Susan Simensky (Contributor), Ben Rubin (Contributor), and Matti Hart (Contributor)
The usual image of anti-globalization demonstrations in places like Seattle, Quebec City, and Genoa is violent confrontations between police and protesters. But University of Alberta art historian Allan Antliff believes this misses the most interesting aspect of the demonstrations: the role artists play in radical politics. In Art, Anarchy and Activism he presents some of the leading anarchist artists...
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A Summer In The Park: A Journal Of Speakers' Corner - Ken Campbell (Preface by) and Tony Allen
A Summer in the Park is Allen's account of his career as a government sponsored advocate heckler; available from midday each Sunday, to teach the techniques of banter to newcomers, and heckle on behalf of shyer members of the public. It is an hilarious account of the techniques and vulnerabilities of the art of performance, and a manifesto for Allen's anarchic utopia, in which tolerance and opposition...
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Provo: Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt - Richard Kempton
Provo: Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt is the first book-length English-language study of Holland's legendary insurrectional movement. In an introduction and eight chapters, Richard Kempton narrates the rise and fall of Provo from early Dutch "Happenings" staged in 1962 through to the so-called "Death of Provo" in 1967, including Robert Jasper Grootveld's anarchist anti-cancer campaigns, the riots agains...
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Unleashing The Collective Phantoms: Essays In Reverse Engineering - Brian Holmes
These insurgent essays develop and critique some of the cultural and artistic projects that first arose with the worlwide wave of protests, around the turn of the millennium, against what the global South has long called neoliberalism. Dissent and the refusal of a programmed existence return continually to the street, but they also unfold in the intimacy of the imagination. Complex discourses and elaborate f...
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Shorts Are Wrong - Mike Topp
"Mike Topp's irreducible art consists partly of recycling expandable parts of speech and revealing their unused genius. Other parts are fixed, like the sly orthography. Topp is the Andy Warhol and Ralph Nader of literature." — Andrei Codrescu
"Just when I think Mike Topp's poems are funny, they're wise. Just when I think they're wise, they're bad. Just when I think they're bad, they're great. Mike T...
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The Art Of Free Cooperation - Trebor Scholz (Editor), Geert Lovink (Editor), and Brian Holmes (Contributor)
This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new model for social movements. Civic participation is on the decline, but, online, more people work together than ever before. Activists contribute citizen journalism. New media artists create social online tools and...
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Sonic Outlaws DVD - Craig Baldwin (Director)
Craig Baldwin presents an energized discourse on copyright infringement, fair use and culture jamming, via a montage of interviews, music and stock footage stemming from the infamous Negativland-U2 case. Phone pranking, billboard alteration, media hoaxing and the digitalization of intellectual property are examined in the light of the law during a period of rapid artistic and technological change. Includes b...
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