Avant Garde Flashcards
Was originally
The avant- garde is thus ahead of?
Military metaphor: front flank of the army (forerunners who paved way for everyone else)
Ahead of its time
In art from which poetry during the early 1900s took much of its inspiration included movements such as
In poetry this led to poetry associated with ?
Cubism Dadaism surrealism vorticism
Cubism (Gertrude stein) Dada surrealism (guillaume apollonaire)
Vorticism Ezra pound
Objectivism (Louis zukofsky)
Marcel Duchamp
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
The fountain
Ma Jolie
The persistence of memory
Gertrude stein
Born in ? Moved to Paris in ?
She hosted a Paris ? Where whom would meet ?
Pittsburgh pa
1903
Salon
Leading figures of modernism in lit. And art
Pablo Picasso Ernest Hemingway f scott Fitzgerald Sinclair Lewis Ezra pound Sherwood Anderson henri Matisse
Stream of consciousness experiments rhythmical essays or portraits were designed to evoke ? And can be seen as literatures answer to ?
Major work:
Gertrude stein
The exciting ness of pure being
Visual art styles and forms such as cubism plasticity collage
Tender buttons: objects food rooms
E.e. Cummings Born ? Born in Enlisted in WWI as an ? Common route for those who considered themselves Tulips and chimneys was published in
Edward Waylon Cummings Cambridge MA Ambulance driver Pacifists 1923
A typical Cummings poem is ?
Employing a few key words ?
Some of these words were ?
Often combining two common word into a new
He also revised ? To suit his own purposes
Using such words as if am and because as ?
Or assigning his own ?
Spare and precise Eccentrically placed on the page Invented by Cummings Synthesis Grammatical linguistic rules Nouns Private meaning to words
Ezra pound
Born in
Left for Europe in
Major works:
The cantos is a long incomplete poem of how many sections? Each of which is a
Most of it written between ?
Although much of the early work was ? And the early cantos as finally published date from ?
Hailey Idaho 1908 116 sections Canto 1915-1962 Abandoned / date from 1922 onwards
Ezra pound influenced many poets that would become ?
Including ?
Leading figures in modernist movement
TS Eliot , Marianne Moore, e.e. Cummings and Louis zufosky
Language poetry
Taking its name from the magazine edited by?
It is an avant- garde poetry movement that emerged in the ? As a response to ?
Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews
Late 1960s and early 1970s / mainstream American poetry
Language poetry developed from diverse communities of poets in ? Who published in journals such as
San Francisco and New York
This, hills, Tottels, LANGUAGE and Tuumba press
Rather than emphasizing traditional poetic techniques language poetry tends to draw the readers attention to?
The writing associated with language poetry including that by?
Is often associated with what three things
The uses of language in a poem that contribute to the creation of meaning
Michael Palmer , lyn hejinian, Ron silliman, Susan Howe, Rae armantrout
Deconstruction, poststructuralism, and objectivist tradition
