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Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: An Interview with Tatiana Flores
Posted on October 25, 2013Published earlier this year, Tatiana Flores’s groundbreaking new book Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30! offers an insightful narrative about the early-20th-century movement that came to be known […] -
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Midnight in Paris
Posted on July 12, 2011If you’ve seen Woody Allen’s recent movie, Midnight in Paris, then you know the protagonist gets to live a fantasy: experiencing Paris in the 1920s. See a roundup selection of Yale ARTbooks on artists, writers, and collectors of the avant-garde Parisian Jazz Age. -
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Tuesday Studio: Kurt Schwitters
Posted on November 2, 2010Even for those who speak German, the word Merz may be difficult to translate. Coined in 1919 by the avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Merz is more of an idea […]