Avant-garde

When the name, “Al Capone” gets thrown into the conversation, words like “corrupt” or even “murderer” often follow. It is hard to imagine a man who had so much controversy surrounding him to be named “Public Enemy #1” would have a benevolent soul. Al Capone had a family. Not only that, but a tight-knit Italian family. He was a loving son, husband, and father. It is necessary to note, though, that many of the perceived ideas about him are true, but often exaggerated. Al, himself, touched upon…

Wong Kar Wai is probably the most innovative and avant-garde director to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wai moved far away from the traditional, Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films, which focused on action, and explored more substantial themes, icnluding human psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart…

named Hood by Air? Hood by Air (HBA), by Shayne Olive, was established in New York City in 2006. It has a specialization in men’s hip-hop hi-street fashion and produces higher-end fashion which emphasizes innovation rather than imitation. Combining avant-garde and hip-hop, HBA has become an unquestionable fashion trend and gained huge favour by celebrities and youngsters aged from 18 to 25, especially in Korea and America. Hood By Air as Popular Culture Gaining its popularity globally in…

Schleiermacher’s Understanding of Prayer To understand the mind of Friedrich Schleiermacher and his thought on prayer we must first understand his background. Schleiermacher is an interesting figure mainly because he embraces many aspects of the enlightenment. Yet, there is also a side of him that rejects many aspects of it as well. His relationship to the enlightenment is dialectical in that he raises some ideas of the enlightenment through different concedes that he has. Schleiermacher…

INTRODUCTION T.J. Demos’s text “Zurich Dada: The Aesthetics of Exile” deals with the beginning of the Dada movement in relation to the performances of Michael Ball and Tristan Tzara, as well as the art of Jean Arp and Sophie Taeurber, and the aesthetics of their work in regards their war induced exile from their home lands. In the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Dada began, young artists and writers seeking refuge from World War I had fled to Switzerland, neutral territory, where they met people…

chose this author because we can enjoy his literature in which reality is transformed into fantasy, which catches us and forces us to interpret it. The author chosen belongs to the "boom" of Latin American literature. That is why his style is avant-garde and uses surrealism as the only way to represent reality. The main characteristic of his fantastic narrative is the application of unusual and suggestive elements; always part of daily situations combined with paranormal…

Final Research Paper: Os Mutantes and Tropicália By: Christie Alexander In Brazil, on April 1, 1964, the Armed Forces, backed by the United States, overthrew the Brazilian President João Goulart. Goulart was a member of the Brazilian Labour Party. The 1964 Brazilian coup d’état put Brazil under the control of a military regime until 1985. This event sparked a musical movement in Brazil known as Tropicália. Also known as Tropicalismo, this movement was not only about music in Brazil but theater,…

In Langston Hughes, poem “politics” (Thruston) and bringing everyone together was one of his main priorities to talk about in his poetry. Other of Langston Hughes 's poetry has been about his past and how to identify himself as a person in the time period when segregation was in the role. Everyone did not understand why a black African American man was writing in such a manner where he can get in a lot of hatred coming through and also can be in a lot of trouble with the authority. He uses…

Written word had a huge impact on the new German Empire in the 19th century. With illiteracy rates decreasing, written word continued to gain a large audience. According to Berghahn (2005) it seem like newspapers, books, journals, and pamphlets demonstrated that there was a “functioning public sphere” within Germany society that was not active previously. The authoritarian society that could censor media at will was no longer effective as before. However, the authorities still were eager to…

Hollywood cinema is widely viewed as narrative with most viewers seeing films only as entertainment and nothing else. And most movies are for entertainment, providing a story with a narrative form or also called Classical Hollywood Cinema. This includes forms of narration, sound, editing, cinematography, etc. Anything you find in the normal classical cinema such as the Marvel movies, Disney movies, or the endless remakes of Planet of the Apes movies. All these films are similar in style because…