Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual, concrete, kinetic, and digital poetry that questions what the word "literary" means, what constitutes poetry, and how, if at all, visual and verbal arts should be differentiated. Radical Poetry examines how poets use the latest technologies (cine…
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States served as home to an avant garde that existed in contradiction to the consumer culture identified with modern industrial capitalism. Composed of a remarkable group of musicians, writers, and artists, these intellectua…
"Coined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, "Radical Jewish Culture," or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn's circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York's downtown music scene, part of the once-grungy Lower East Side, has long be…
At their different stages, Soviet museums were placed for artistic experimentation, for formulating social and political projects, and for ideological struggle. But they were never merely places for neutral aesthetic contemplation and canonization of the past, as they were in th…