Avant-garde

The analysis of Christina Rossetti’s skilful construction, timeless content, and sophisticated use of language in her poetry provides insight into why her poems are both engaging and highly valued. Rossetti’s works are highly acclaimed by many modern critics as innovative for her time, due to her commentary on Victorian society and her lyrical gift. She explores many thematic concerns that maintain relevancy in present-day society, including the corrupting influences of the world; the…

Discuss how two artworks featuring the human figure represent the cultural forces from the world in which they were produced. Art is intuitively reflective of cultural forces that impact societal values and sociology; through representation of the human figure, artists reveal their present insight into culture that has been informed by their personal life and audience. Inherently present in art, these manifestations of culture are contorted throughout time as social paradigms change. Edgar…

People often consider suicidal people as being unsuccessful, both socially and economically. This isn’t the case as proven by the article, Benoît Violier’s Death Shines Light on High-Pressure Restaurant World, by Dan Bilefsky and Kim Severson. Benoît Violier is a chef who commits suicide The article shows that sometimes, seemingly perfect people, aren’t as perfect as they seem to be. Benoît Violer’s restaurant, a French chef, had recently been ranked number 1 in the world. Despite receiving this…

determined sharp finger strokes, he constructed his next work of art; Slipping into a stiff black suit, it was time for the Six Gallery Reading. James walked through the door, the room was dark and smoky, the dusty white walls were lined with Avant Garde paintings and the floor was filled with tables. James made his way behind the stage, waiting for his name to be called; soon enough Kenneth Rexroth introduced James Williams. Clearing his throat, he…

The war on alcohol and on drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, and opium were efforts to restore social control. In the face of changing demographics and rising social insecurity, prohibitionists campaigned for federal laws to fight against the liquor trade and narcotics and eradicate the social ills they believed the substances caused. Social class, ethnicity, race, and religious struggles shaped the passage of laws prohibiting alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and opium use. For alcohol, a variety of…

scenes in A Clockwork Orange. But there doesn't seem to be much point in hiring a composer who, however good he may be, is not a Mozart or a Beethoven, when you have such a vast choice of existing orchestral music which includes contemporary and avant-garde work. Doing it this way gives you the opportunity to experiment with the music early in the editing phase, and in some instances to cut the scene to the music. This is not something you can easily do in the normal sequence of events” (1982).…

This expansion of the traditional soundscape, of course, isn’t without its justified criticism. Overdubbing and multi-track recording, by definition, allows artists to potentially polish their studio recordings to a degree of artificial perfection. Many critics agree that overdubbing induces a certain stiffness that isn’t present in live or single session recordings, and this rigidity directly contradicts the tenets of rock and roll, which decree it an organic expression of thought. For all the…

The Shock of the Modern is an appropriate way to describe the changes occurring in art and society during the 19th and 20th centuries. Various social, political and economic changes would drastically challenge artistic conventions that had been in place since the Renaissance. The period between 1850-1970 saw dramatic changes and revolution in the production and history of art. The art world would be exposed to juxtapositions between both tradition and modernity and the idealized and realistic.…

Abhimanyu Rajshekar (Block F) Context: Theatre of the Absurd has its roots set in the avant-garde experiments in art in the 1920’s-1930’s. It was strongly influenced by the horrors of World War Two, where the impermanence of values and morality, validity of conventions and the meaninglessness of human life and its social conventions were questioned. These beliefs were stimulated by the constant threat of nuclear annihilation in Europe in 1945, and played an important role in its rise in Europe.…

“Someone has torn up a letter and thrown it away. Picking up the pieces, one finds that many of them can be fitted together” (Ozeki 5). In My Year of Meats, Ruth L. Ozeki provides social commentary on hormone use in the meat industry and its unintended consequences with the story of Jane Takagi-Little and her television show, “My American Wife!”, which promotes the sale and consumption of beef products in Japan. Ozeki uses Akiko, the abused, Japanese wife of the executive producer of the…