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List of avant-garde artists

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Avant-garde ({{IPA|fr|avɑ̃ ɡaʁd}}) is French for "vanguard".{{Cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=avant-garde|title=Avant-garde definitions|access-date=2007-03-14|work=Dictionary.com}} The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture.

Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Postmodernism posits that the age of the constant pushing of boundaries is no longer with us and that avant-garde has little to no applicability in the age of Postmodern art.

Visual artists

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  • Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian artist, member of CoBrA)
  • Alexander Archipenko (Ukrainian sculptor)
  • Magdalena Abakanowicz (Polish sculptor)
  • Hans Bellmer (German artist)
  • Joseph Beuys (German artist)See Claudia Schmuckli: "Chronology and Selected Exhibition History", in Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments (Tate, 2005).
  • Francisco Bores (Spanish painter)
  • Constantin Brâncuși (Romanian sculptor)[http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=108 "Constantin Brancusi"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061220115258/http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=108 |date=2006-12-20 }} at brainjuice.com. (Accessed March 27, 2007.)
  • Georges Braque (French painter)[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/braque_georges.html Artcyclopedia] – Links to Braque's works and information
  • David Burliuk (Ukrainian painter, illustrator)
  • Wladimir Burliuk (illustrator, Jack of Diamonds)
  • Giorgio de Chirico (painter)Giorgio de Chirico in the Museum of Modern Art
  • Joseph Csaky (Hungarian-French sculptor)
  • Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter)
  • Theo van Doesburg (Dutch artist) the founder of De Stijl.{{cite web |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/de-stijl |title=Art Term: De Stijl |access-date=15 January 2022|publisher=Tate}}{{cite book|last=Curl|first=James Stevens|author-link=James Stevens Curl|title=A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofarch00curl_0|url-access=registration|year=2006|edition=2nd|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-860678-8}}
  • Jean Dubuffet (French painter)[https://www.moma.org/artists/1633 "Jean Dubuffet"], Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • Marcel Duchamp (French artist)Calvin Tomkins: Duchamp: A Biography.{{full citation needed|date=January 2022}}
  • Naum Gabo (sculptor)[https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/14/naum-gabo-as-a-soviet-emigre-in-berlin "Naum Gabo as a Soviet Émigré in Berlin"] by Christina Lodder, Tate Papers, no. 14, Autumn 2010
  • Pablo Gargallo (Spanish sculptor)
  • Paul Gauguin{{Cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=2098|title = Paul Gauguin|publisher=MoMA}}
  • Alberto Giacometti (sculptor)*{{cite book|last=Lord|first=James|author-link=James Lord (author)|year=1985|title=Giacometti: A Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/giacomettibiogra00lord|url-access=registration|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0374525255}}
  • Albert Gleizes (French painter and theorist)
  • Julio González (Spanish sculptor)[http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_55.html Guggenheim Museum biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509075353/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_55.html |date=2008-05-09 }}
  • Natalia Goncharova (Russian painter)
  • Arshile Gorky (painter)
  • George Grosz (German painter)
  • Neil Harbisson (English artist)
  • Asger Jorn (Danish artist, member of CoBrA)
  • Wassily Kandinsky (Russian artist)Hajo Düchting. Wassily Kandinsky 1866–1944: A Revolution in Painting. (Taschen, 2000). {{ISBN|3-8228-5982-6}}
  • Allan Kaprow (painter/happenings){{Cite news

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  • Roger Kemp (Pioneer Australian abstractionist)
  • Frederick John Kiesler (designer), (sculptor), (visual artist)
  • Willem de Kooning (painter)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-de-Kooning "Willem de Kooning"], Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Yayoi Kusama (Japanese artist and writer)
  • Fernand Léger (painter)
  • El Lissitzky (Russian artist){{cite book|last1=Mayakovsky|first1=Vladimir|author1-link=Vladimir Mayakovsky|last2=Lissitzky|first2=El|author2-link=El Lissitzky|title=For the Voice|type=translation of для голоса (Dlia golosa)|publisher=MIT Press|year=2000|isbn=0-262-13377-6}}
  • Kazimir Malevich (Ukrainian artist){{Cite web |url=http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_94.html |title=Guggenheim: Kazimir Malevich |access-date=2008-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512033331/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_94.html |archive-date=2008-05-12 |url-status=dead }}
  • Agnes Martin (painter){{Cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A3787|title = The Collection | MoMA}}
  • Henri Matisse (painter)Hilary Spurling. The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 1, 1869-1908. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998. {{ISBN|0-679-43428-3}}.
  • Jean Metzinger (French painter and theorist)
  • Joan Miró (Spanish painter and sculptor)
  • Piet Mondrian (Dutch artist)Hans Locher: Piet Mondrian. Colour, Structure, and Symbolism. Bern-Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 1994. {{ISBN|978-3-906127-44-6}}
  • Henry Moore (sculptor)[http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag01/julaug01/moore/moore.shtml Review in Sculpture Magazine]
  • Barnett Newman (painter)Barnett Newman Selected Writings and Interviews, (ed.) by John P. O'Neill, University of California Press, 1990.
  • Georgia O'Keeffe (American artist)Roxana Robinson. 1990. Georgia O'Keeffe: A life. Bloomsbury, London. {{ISBN|0-7475-0557-8}}
  • Claes Oldenburg (sculptor)[http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_121.html Oldenburg Biography at the Guggenheim Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031007023116/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_121.html |date=2003-10-07 }}
  • Yoko Ono (Japanese-American sculptor/installation artist/musician)
  • Francis Picabia (painter)
  • Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter and sculptor)
  • Antoine Pevsner (sculptor)
  • Jackson Pollock (painter)Piper, David. The Illustrated History of Art, {{ISBN|0-7537-0179-0}}, p460-461.
  • Robert Rauschenberg (painter)

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|title = Rauschenberg's Signature on the Century

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|date = 28 November 1997

|first = Marlena

|last = Donohue

|quote = Rauschenberg's mammoth career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (and other New York sites) from Sept. 19 to Jan. 7, 1998... along with longtime friends pre-Pop painter Jasper Johns and the late conceptual composer John Cage, Rauschenberg pretty much defined the technical and philosophic art landscape and its offshoots after Abstract Expressionism.

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  • Man Ray (painter and visual artist)
  • Ad Reinhardt (painter)[http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_133A.html Ad Reinhardt bio at Guggenheim Museum site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207085440/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_133A.html |date=2005-02-07 }}
  • Jean-Paul Riopelle (Canadian artist)
  • Alexander Rodchenko (Russian artist)
  • Olga Rozanova (Russian artist)
  • Louis Schanker (American printmaker and sculptor)
  • Kurt Schwitters (German artist)
  • David Smith (American sculptor)
  • Kenneth Snelson (sculptor)
  • Frank Stella (painter)[http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_148.html Frank Stella Biography, Guggenheim Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427105951/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_148.html |date=2006-04-27 }}
  • Vladimir Tatlin (Russian artist)
  • Remedios Varo (Mexican-Spanish painter)
  • Wolf Vostell (German Artist)[https://archive.today/20120530142236/http://www.museenkoeln.de/homepage/bild-der-woche.asp?bdw=1997_18 Wolf Vostell at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne]
  • Andy Warhol (American painter and director)[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6246&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 Andy Warhol at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)]
  • Wols (German painter and photographer)

Architects

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Performance artists

Musicians

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Authors, playwrights, actors, theatre directors and poets

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{{See also|List of 20th-century writers}}

Photographers, filmmakers, video artists

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Dancers and choreographers

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Others

See also

References

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Further reading

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  • Brakhage, Stan. Film at Wit's End – Essays on American Independent Filmmakers. (Edinburgh, Polygon. 1989)
  • Brakhage, Stan. Essential Brakhage – Selected Writings on Filmmaking. (New York, McPherson. 2001)
  • Cage, John. 1961. Silence: Lectures and Writings. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. Unaltered reprints: Wesleyan University press, 1966 (pbk), 1967 (cloth), 1973 (pbk ["First Wesleyan paperback edition"]), 1975 (unknown binding); Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971; London: Calder & Boyars, 1968, 1971, 1973 {{ISBN|0-7145-0526-9}} (cloth) {{ISBN|0-7145-1043-2}} (pbk). London: Marion Boyars, 1986, 1999 {{ISBN|0-7145-1043-2}} (pbk); [n.p.]: Reprint Services Corporation, 1988 (cloth) {{ISBN|99911-780-1-5}} [In particular the essays "Experimental Music", pp. 7–12, and "Experimental Music: Doctrine", pp. 13–17.]
  • Cope, David. 1997. Techniques of the Contemporary Composer. New York, New York: Schirmer Books. {{ISBN|0-02-864737-8}}.
  • Curtis, David. Experimental Cinema – A Fifty Year Evolution. (London. Studio Vista. 1971)
  • Curtis, David (ed.) A Directory of British Film and Video Artists (Arts Council, 1999).
  • Dixon, Wheeler Winston, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema. (Albany, New York. State University of New York Press, 1997)
  • Dixon, Wheeler Winston and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.) Experimental Cinema – The Film Reader, (London: Routledge, 2002)
  • Jachec, Nancy. The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism 1940–1960 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000 {{ISBN|0-521-65154-9}}
  • Le Grice, Malcolm, Abstract Film and Beyond (MIT, 1977).
  • MacDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 1992 and 1998).
  • MacDonald, Scott. Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  • Mauceri, Frank X. 1997. "From Experimental Music to Musical Experiment". Perspectives of New Music 35, no. 1 (Winter): 187–204.
  • Meyer, Leonard B. 1994. Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|0-226-52143-5}}
  • Nicholls, David. 1998. "Avant-garde and Experimental Music." In Cambridge History of American Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-45429-8}}
  • Nyman, Michael. 1974. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. New York: Schirmer. {{ISBN|0-02-871200-5}}. 2nd edition, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|0-521-65297-9}}
  • O'Connor, Francis V. [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/165852&referer=brief_results Jackson Pollock] [exhibition catalogue] (New York, Museum of Modern Art, [1967]) {{OCLC|165852}}
  • O'Pray, Michael. Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions (London: Wallflower Press, 2003).
  • Peterson, James. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avant-Garde Cinema (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994).
  • Rees, A. L., A History of Experimental Film and Video (British Film Institute, 1999).
  • Sargeant, Jack, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema (Creation, 1997).
  • Saunders, Frances Stonor, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/43114251&referer=brief_results The cultural cold war: the CIA and the world of arts and letters] (New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2000) {{ISBN|1-56584-596-X}}
  • Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
  • Tapié, Michel. [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/30601793?tab=details Pollock] (Paris, P. Facchetti, 1952) {{OCLC|30601793}}
  • Tapié, Michel. [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/62515192&referer=brief_results Hans Hofmann: peintures 1962 : 23 avril – 18 mai 1963.] (Paris: Galerie Anderson-Mayer, 1963.) [exhibition catalogue and commentary] {{OCLC|62515192}}
  • Tyler, Parker, Underground Film: A Critical History. (New York: Grove Press, 1969)
  • {{cite book | first=Jeffrey | last=Wechsler | title=Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism | location=New York | publisher=Hollis Taggart Galleries | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-9759954-9-5|ref=none}}

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  • [http://www.dekaro.it/soviet.html "Why did Soviet Photographic Avant-garde decline?"] by Giovanni De Caro, December 2001
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120203110530/http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=38 "Avant-gard"], definition at the Tate

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