Modernism, magazines, and the British avant-garde
"The Age of New Waves presents a trenchant global and comparative study of new wave cinemas, from the French nouvelle vague to films from Taiwan, mainland China, and the U.S. in the late twentieth century. Drawing on a diverse array of filmmakers--Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, H…
'Boring Formless Nonsense' intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs shoulders with the categories of chance, noise, and obscur…
This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes - whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through p…
In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Swe…