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Innovation in Art
So glossy! What is innovation in art? This is something I’ve circled in my other posts, for example: “Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies”; “Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle”‘;...
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Looking at Movements, part 3: No Wave
Lydia Lunch with her friends Nick Cave and James Chance Part 1: The Post-Punk Revival Part 2: Post-Punk Part 3: No Wave Part 4: New Wave (UK) Part 5: New Wave (US) I’m going to do this somewhat...
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Looking at Movements, part 5: New Wave (US)
Debbie Harry of Blondie Part 1: The Post-Punk Revival Part 2: Post-Punk Part 3: No Wave Part 4: New Wave (UK) Part 5: New Wave (US) In this installment, I’ll be looking at the late 70s American side of...
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Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 1
[Update: Part 2 is here] Re: Greg’s most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here and here, but to recap: The term’s early 19th-century Socialist origins...
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Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
“Evolution of Dance” by Judson Laipply (2006) (still). In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would include not only movies and short films,...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)
Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing. Jean-Luc Godard had returned to making feature films, working on Sauve qui peut (la vie). George Lucas...
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