[Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76

[Myron Ort]

a·vant-garde

noun
1.
new and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people introducing them.




adjective
1.favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas.





So avant garde science would include all the unsuccessful experiments regardless of  significance, validity, or connection to any historical development.
Fortunately science never succumbed to the "tradition of the new" which undermined sanity in the arts. Insanity seems to rule and reference to or use of tradition is branded as (been there done that - anti avant garde) plagiarism.
I prefer the idea of art, like science, being built on a history of useful discoveries for expression, not expression for its own sake at the expense of insightful universality, technique, and craft.

-not making any friends, 
Myron Ort    




On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Stashu Kybartas wrote:

> Perhaps we should just admit that the Avant-Garde ended where Post-Modernism and identity politics picked up. (the Post 70s chapters in Sitney notwithstanding). The take was driven into the heart of the Avant-Garde at the turn of this century with the web.
> 
> There is no avant-garde now.  The internet insures that NOTHING will stay avant - EVER.  
> 
> This is not nescessarily a bad thing.  Time to move on to the great future where everything is available to everyone all the time - no exclusive clubs anymore.
> 
> Keep the faith...
> 
> 
> 
> Stashu Kybartas
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> On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz7 at yahoo.es> wrote:
> 
>> Here's another one:
>> Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism
>> by Patricia Melllencap (Indiana University Press)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> De: "William Wees, Dr." <william.wees at mcgill.ca>
>> Para: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com> 
>> Enviado: Jueves 7 de noviembre de 2013 2:26
>> Asunto: Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
>> 
>> I would suggest chapters 13 and 14 of Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 3rd edition, by P. Adams Sitney, Oxford University Press, 2002; A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, by Paul Arthur, University of Minnesota Press, 2005; and in all humility, a couple of essays by myself: ”The Changing of the Garde(s)” in Public, No. 25, 2002, and “No More Giants” in Women and Experimental Filmmaking, eds. Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois Press, 2005.
>>  
>> --Bill Wees
>>  
>>  
>> From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Ara Osterweil
>> Sent: November 5, 2013 10:19 AM
>> To: frameworks
>> Subject: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
>>  
>> Hello all,
>> A friend is compiling a bibliography and needs to know the 4-5 most important scholarly books or articles on American a/g film made after 1976. My scholarship on the a/g is mostly in the 60s and 70s and while I know much of the work that comes after, I wanted to confirm my suspicions.
>> Suggestions welcome and appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Ara
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