List of Avant Garde Artists Information
Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [avɑ̃ ɡaʁd]) is French for "vanguard".[1] The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture.
Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Postmodernism posits that the age of the constant pushing of boundaries is no longer with us and that avant-garde has little to no applicability in the age of Postmodern art.
Avant Garde: Visual Artist
Henri Matisse, 1933, photo by
Carl Van Vechten
Joan Miró 1935, photo by
Carl Van Vechten
Constantin Brâncuşi, 1922, photo by
Edward Steichen
Avant Garde: Architects
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954, photo: Al Ravenna,
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Avant Garde: Jazz, composers, performance artists
Igor Stravinsky, 1921
Duke Ellington 1965, on tour,
Frankfurt, Germany
John Cage (right) with
David Tudor at
Shiraz Arts Festival 1971
Philip Glass, 1993 in
Florence
Steve Reich, 2006
- Laurie Anderson (American composer)
- George Antheil (American composer)
- Albert Ayler (Free jazz) [28]
- John Balance (Music Composer, poet)
- Luciano Berio (Italian composer)
- Pierre Boulez (French composer)
- Glenn Branca (American guitarist and composer)
- Harold Budd (American composer)
- John Cage (American composer)
- Les Claypool (American musician, singer, bassist, film maker, novelist, composer)
- Ornette Coleman (American jazz musician)
- John Coltrane (American jazz musician)
- Ivor Cutler (Scottish avant-musician and poet)
- Miles Davis (American jazz musician)
- Claude Debussy (French composer) [29]
- Eric Dolphy (American jazz musician)
- Duke Ellington (American jazz musician, band leader and composer)
- Don Ellis (American jazz musician, band leader and composer)
- Brian Eno (English musician and composer)
- Morton Feldman (American composer)
- Aaron Funk (Canadian electronic musician)
- Diamanda Galás (American Musician, composer and performance artist)
- Philip Glass (American composer)
- Dave Holland (British jazz musician)
- Daryl Hayott (American Jazz Musician/Composer)
- Charles Ives (American composer) [30]
- Roland Kirk (American jazz musician)
- Bill Laswell (Avant-Garde musician)
- György Ligeti (Hungarian/Austrian/Romanian composer)
- Witold Lutosławski (Polish composer)
- Lydia Lunch (American singer, poet, writer and actress)
- Angus MacLise (American percussionist)
- Charles Mingus (American jazz musician)
- Thelonious Monk (American jazz musician)
- Max Neuhaus (composer)
- Mike Oldfield (English composer)
- Yoko Ono (Japanese artist and musician)
- Harry Partch (American composer and instrument designer)
- Mike Patton (American musician, singer and composer)
- Krzysztof Penderecki (Polish composer)
- Sun Ra (Free jazz innovator)
- Steve Reich (American composer)
- Terry Riley (American composer)
- Arthur Russell (American musician, singer and composer)
- Pharoah Sanders (American jazz musician)
- Erik Satie (French composer and pianist)
- Pierre Schaeffer (French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician)
- Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian/American composer)
- Archie Shepp (American jazz musician)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (German composer)
- Igor Stravinsky (Russian composer) [31]
- David Tudor (American composer)
- Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Armenian vocalist, multiinstrumentalist)
- Edgard Varèse (French composer, later naturalized American citizen)
- David Vorhaus (American electronic composer)
- Igor Wakhevitch (French composer)
- Anton Webern (Second Viennese School)
- Robert Wyatt (English singer and songwriter)
- Iannis Xenakis (Greek composer and architect)
- La Monte Young (American composer)
- Frank Zappa (American composer, guitarist and satirist)
Avant Garde: bands/musicians
Buckethead
Samuel Beckett, c. 1970
Avant Garde: authors, playwrights, actors, directors (theater) and poets
James Joyce, c. 1918, Photo by C. Ruf, Zurich
Carl Van Vechten,
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1934
- JoAnne Akalaitis (writer/director/ Mabou Mines)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (writer)
- Antonin Artaud (French actor, director and theorist)
- Hugo Ball (German writer, dadaist)
- J. G. Ballard (British author)
- Georges Bataille (French writer and essayist)
- Julian Beck (actor/director/ The Living Theater)
- Samuel Beckett (Irish playwright)
- Maurice Blanchot (French writer and essayist)
- Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine short story writer)
- André Breton (French author)
- William S. Burroughs (author, poet, essayist)
- Jim Carroll (avant-garde poet)
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine (author)
- Gregory Corso (experimental Beat poet)
- E. E. Cummings (poet)
- Jeffrey Daniels (American Poet)
- Guy Debord (French author, and philosopher)
- Richard Foreman (American Director/designer/playwright/compositional theater maker)
- Akasegawa Genpei (Japanese artist and novelist)
- Allen Ginsberg (poet)
- Witold Gombrowicz (writer)
- Jerzy Grotowski (director)
- Alfred Jarry (writer)
- James Joyce (writer)
- Franz Kafka (writer)
- Tadeusz Kantor (director)
- Lajos Kassák (1887–1967, Hungarian avant-garde poet and painter)
- Srečko Kosovel (Slovene poet)
- Jackson Mac Low, American poet
- Mina Loy (British painter/poet)
- Judith Malina (actor/director/ The Living Theater)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (founder of Italian futurism)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russian futurist writer and poet)
- Vsevolod Meyerhold (director)
- Henry Miller (author)
- Yukio Mishima (writer, playwright, poet)
- Vladimir Nabokov (Russian author)
- Anaïs Nin (French diarist, author, poet)
- Ezra Pound (American poet)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French author, playwright, filmmaker)
- Raymond Roussel (writer)
- Bruno Schulz (writer)
- Gertrude Stein (author, essayist)
- Ellen Stewart (theater director/ La MaMa)
- Tristan Tzara (Romanian poet)
- William Carlos Williams (American poet)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (writer)
- Robert Wilson (director)
- Virginia Woolf (English author)
See also:
List of notable 20th-century writers
Avant garde: photographers, filmmakers, video artists, directors
Salvador Dalí and
Man Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934 making "wild eyes" for photographer
Carl Van Vechten
Lithuanian artist
Jonas Mekas, regarded as godfather of American
avant-garde cinema
- John Abraham 1937-1987 (Indian Movie Director)
- Kenneth Anger (American filmmaker)
- Diane Arbus (American photographer)
- Matthew Barney (American performance artist, filmmaker, photographer)
- Jordan Belson (American filmmaker)
- Stan Brakhage (American filmmaker)
- Luis Buñuel (Spanish filmmaker)
- Věra Chytilová (Czech filmmaker)
- Jean Cocteau (French poet, artist, filmmaker)
- Bruce Connor (American filmmaker, sculptor, and painter)
- Tony Conrad (American video artist, experimental filmmaker)
- Maya Deren (American filmmaker)
- Nathaniel Dorsky (American filmmaker
- Germaine Dulac (French filmmaker)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German filmmaker)
- David Gatten (American filmmaker)
- Ernie Gehr (American filmmaker)
- Jean-Luc Godard (French filmmaker)
- Peter Hutton (American filmmaker)
- Ken Jacobs (American filmmaker)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chilean director)
- Mary Jordan (American filmmaker, performance artist, activist)
- Harmony Korine (American filmmaker)
- David Lynch (American filmmaker)
- Robert Mapplethorpe (American photographer)
- Jonas Mekas (American filmmaker)
- Dudley Murphy (Experimental filmmaker)
- Ryūtarō Nakamura (Japanese Director and Animator)
- Mamoru Oshii (Japanese filmmaker)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian filmmaker, poet and writer)
- Man Ray (American/French, photographer and filmmaker)
- Alain Resnais (French filmmaker)
- Jean Rouch Ethnographic filmmaker
- Jack Smith (American filmmaker)
- Micheal Snow (Canadian artist, filmmaker)
- Perry Mark Stratychuk (Canadian filmmaker, poet and writer)
- Phil Solomon (American filmmaker)
- Andy Warhol (American artist)
- Joel-Peter Witkin (American photographer)
- Fred Worden (American filmmaker)
- Kansuke Yamamoto (Japanese photographer and poet)
Avant garde: Dancers and Choreographers
Isadora Duncan performing barefoot. Photo by
Arnold Genthe ca. 1915-1918
Martha Graham, Photo by
Yousuf Karsh, 1948
- Loie Fuller (pioneer of modern dance)
- Isadora Duncan (pioneer of modern dance)
- Vaslav Nijinsky (pioneer of modern dance)
- Léonide Massine (pioneer of modern dance)
- Ruth St. Denis (pioneer of modern dance)
- Ted Shawn (pioneer of modern dance)
- Doris Humphrey (pioneer of modern dance)
- Charles Weidman (pioneer of modern dance)
- Hanya Holm (pioneer of modern dance)
- Helen Tamiris (pioneer of modern dance)
- Mary Wigman (German dancer, choreographer)
- Martha Graham (American dancer, choreographer)
- Anna Sokolow (American dancer, choreographer)
- Merce Cunningham (American dancer, choreographer)
- Alwin Nikolais (American dancer, choreographer)
- Twyla Tharp (American choreographer, dancer)
- Lucinda Childs (American dancer, choreographer)
- Deborah Hay (American dancer, choreographer)
- Anna Halprin, (American dancer, choreographer)
- Yvonne Rainer (American dancer, choreographer)
- Pina Bausch (German dancer, choreographer)
- Trisha Brown (American dancer, choreographer)
Other
See also
Sources
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