54 Quotes About Avant-garde



  • Author Sylvia Lavin
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    While architecture’s sense of disciplinary inferiority ultimately derives from the antique pyramid of expression that placed language and poetry at its lofty apex and building down amid the mud and toil of the ground, architecture’s Sisyphean effort to achieve elevation only became more futile with the development of modern capitalism on the one hand […] and avant-garde strategies of opposition on the other.

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  • Author Don DeLillo
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    I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves. You were right, Jack. This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

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  • Author Bob Dylan
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    2. i got 14 fevers/ i got 5 believers...dressed up like mentell your mama not to worry/2. (a) tell your mama & your pappa i'm trying to keep from dying too3. tell your mamma & your pappa that there's nothing wrong with my jugular veintell your mama i love her & tell your sister Alice the same4. when you sleep on windows & you stay up all night swallowing rocks5. i should've sent her to Hong Kong instead of leaving

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  • Author Ann Quin
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    Threading experience through imaginative material, acting out fictitious parts, or choosing a stale-mate for compromise. Under this fabrication a secret army gathers defeating those who stalk the scaffolding of comparisons. Yet they still hunt with their pale perplexities and resentful airs.

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