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Exploring the Avant-Garde Movement

This quiz explores the key concepts and historical context of the avant-garde movement in art and culture, testing knowledge on influential artists, movements, and critical theories.

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1 This concept is applied to the work done by small collectives of ________ and artists as they open pathways through new cultural or political terrain for society to follow.

2 Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from ________ through the Situationists to postmodern artists such as the Language poets around 1981.

3 For instance, during the 1930s the advertising industry was quick to take visual mannerisms from ________, but this does not mean that 1930s advertising photographs are truly surreal.

4 [1] The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to ________, culture, and politics.

5 For Greenberg, these forms were therefore ________: they were phony, faked or mechanical culture, which often pretended to be more than they were by using formal devices stolen from advanced or vanguard culture.

6 The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of ________, as distinct from postmodernism.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • only 1000 copies of each issue of Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly were printed on loose-leaf paper, bound in a folio, and featured avant-garde authors, poets, artists, and even architects.
  • in 1943, avant-garde French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier founded a film school that was attended by Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Volker Schlöndorff.
  • the avant-garde magazine 291 is credited with first introducing visual poetry to the United States back in 1915.
  • the Russian avant-garde art collective UNOVIS signed most of their works with a single black square, partly as a homage to a similar work by their leader, Kazimir Malevich.
  • the bootlegged song "Revolution 1 (Take 20)" by the British rock band The Beatles acts as a missing link between the seemingly unrelated "Revolution 1" and the avant-garde "Revolution 9".
  • Stephen Gilbert was one of only two British artists to join the CoBrA avant-garde art group.
  • Sherefudin's White Mosque, where the mihrab, minbar and minarets have a folk art character subtly enhanced by the avant-garde geometries of their setting, won the 1983 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
  • Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru.
  • Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock".
  • Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944.
  • Rob Mazurek's avant-garde Chicago Underground projects began as a workshop at local jazz club The Green Mill.
  • opera singer Richard Suart, known for his roles in Gilbert and Sullivan, has also specialised in avant-garde modern opera.
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