What do you think when you hear the phrase 'avant garde'?

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: What do you think when you hear the phrase 'avant garde'?

[JVS]

1. vanguard

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Fencing.

[Dystopian]

6. ...

:spray:

peace~

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Must hear.

I usually think "avant-garde jazz," which I enjoy for the most part -- Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, late Coltrane, etc.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Sturgeon's Law: 90% of anything is crap.

However, the finest 10% of Avant Garde gives me the biggest grins.

[Dystopian]

5. e.e. cummings...

One of my literature classes...about 25 years ago.
I'll never forget that phrase. Never.
I learned not to judge...well, not completely, but a lesson I'll never forget.


peace~

[mitchum]

7. Overused and often incorrect (particularly when one follows the...

"formalism of the avant garde")

[tigereye]

8. usually it means I want to go....

just saw E Sharp not too long ago with the Sirius String Quartet. I love challenging music and art. In fact there's an avant jazz show here this Sunday that I was eyeing...

[surrealAmerican]

9. ?

MUST see or not see is sooooooo passe.

[LanternWaste]

10. A sans serif typeface...

A sans serif typeface that's as utilitarian as futura or arial, but a bit more stylish... :)


I'm a typesetter... it was the first thing that came to my mind :shrug:

[old mark]

11. That is French for

I won't like it.

mark

[derby378]

12. Hyster Pulsatu, Musique Concrete, Arcane Device, and this...

http://perso.club-internet.fr/raphael.mouneyres/mp3/Bathyst-BIOTRON_TANAKE.mp3

Enjoy.

[MilesColtrane]

13. Bad poetry, nudity, yams....

[nomorenomore08]

18. Best response of the thread!

:thumbsup:

[RagAss]

14. Indy Films.

[Mike 03]

15. It must be a new film by Jean-Luc Godard.

It depends who the artist is.

Godard is "Must See."

Warhol is "Avoid at all costs."

[ghostsofgiants]

22. I'm just gonna borrow your answer.

[HopeHoops]

16. Where the FUCK is my sword????

[Deja Q]

17. Devo

:P

[nomorenomore08]

19. I answered "?" because my real answer is "neither."

And as someone upthread said already, it's such an overused phrase that it's become kind of meaningless. Experimentalism can be a great thing, of course, in any art form, but it's not really an end unto itself. Take Lou Reed for an example: "Sister Ray" = good, 'Metal Machine Music' = very VERY bad.

[Scout]

20. the typeface n/t

[MajorChode]

21. Someone trying to make something shitty sound great....

by using the French form of vanguard.

[kentauros]

23. "Einstein on the Beach"

"Music for Six Pianos"

Morton Subotnick

Tuvan Throat Music

Music of the Galaxies

The Avant Garde show on KPFT

:D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. Andy Warhol.

and all that it implies.

[enigmatic]

25. LaMonte Young

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn2CJmFrUmU

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. Must see! Must see! Must see!

[Radical Activist]

27. self indulgent bullshit.

But occasionally good.