Avant Garde


Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
House of Leaves
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Ulysses
Pale Fire
Waiting for Godot
A Clockwork Orange
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Metamorphosis
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Infinite Jest
Slaughterhouse-Five
Theory of the Avant-Garde
Gravity’s Rainbow
To the Lighthouse
Without Empathy by Mk RaghavendraMondo Macabro  by Pete TombsI Was a Teenage Movie Maker by Donald F. GlutMen, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol J. CloverNightmare USA by Stephen Thrower
Film-Acres Delinquent Movie Ranch
278 books — 20 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiIce by Anna KavanNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James Joyce
Avant Garde books
114 books — 71 voters

Bruno Weber's Phantastische Welt by Justus DahindenPhantasus - Sieben Billionen Jahre vor meiner Geburt by Arno HolzMort et passion de Felix C. Scribator by Fernand CombetDas Kind der Gewalt und die Sterne der Romani by Marianne FritzRotor by Ferdinand Kriwet
Unreadabula
100 books — 2 voters
It Then by Danielle CollobertRoutines, Expanded Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Horror-Poetry
2 books — 1 voter

Eunoia by Christian BökI'll Drown My Book by Caroline BergvallAgainst Expression by Craig DworkinUnoriginal Genius by Marjorie PerloffSoliloquy by Kenneth Goldsmith
Conceptual Writing
152 books — 23 voters

[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during ...more
Grant H. Kester, The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.
Vladan Kuzmanovic

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