Perhaps through attrition, perhaps through sheer tenacity, the avant-garde of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s is deemed ripe for a re-reading. Fortunately these 20 articles take an interdisciplinary
approach and has the advantage of enough time passing to insert a modicum of distance, although certainly not reverence. Topics include the fine arts, with contributions on Duchamp and Morris
and their takes on death and irony, work across art forms, such as neo-dada performance art and concrete poetry as well as film, work at the periphery, such as that in Brazil's self-styled
position as vanguard of the 1950s, the attempt to produce avant-garde radio, the trouble with gender and the avant-garde, the new political situationalist avant-garde, and theoretical
reflections ranging from nature and ecology to the uses of structure and repetition. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
