American avant-garde

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American avant-garde refers to innovative and experimental movements in U.S. art, film, literature, and performance that challenged traditional forms and conventions, especially throughout the 20th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic movement
cultural movement
associatedWithMovement Abstract Expressionism
Beat Generation
Black Mountain College community
Fluxus
Happenings
New American Cinema
New York School
conceptual art
minimalism
country United States
emergedInPeriod 20th century
flourishedInDecade 1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
goal challenge artistic conventions
expand definition of art
explore new media and technologies
hasCharacteristic anti-traditional
experimental
innovative
interdisciplinary
nonconformist
hasDomain dance
film
literature
music
performance art
theatre
visual art
influenced contemporary art
independent film
performance studies
postmodern literature
influencedBy Abstract Expressionism
Dada
European avant-garde
Surrealism
modernism
typicalForm experimental film
free verse poetry
improvisational performance
multimedia performance
site-specific installation
stream-of-consciousness prose
typicalTheme alienation
formal experimentation
political dissent
subjectivity
urban experience

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MAMAC collectionFocus American avant-garde
Rivers and Mountains associatedWithMovement American avant-garde
Shigeko Kubota culturalContext New York avant-garde
linked to: American avant-garde
Semina Culture artMovement California avant-garde
subject linked to: Semina Culture (body of work)
linked to: American avant-garde
Shirley Berman movement California avant-garde
linked to: American avant-garde
David Wessel partOf American experimental music tradition
linked to: American avant-garde
Ron Rice movement American avant-garde cinema
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Marie Menken partOf American avant-garde cinema
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John Giorno movement New York avant-garde
subject linked to: John
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Mario Banana No. 2 artisticMovement American avant-garde cinema
linked to: American avant-garde
Marsden Hartley associatedWith American avant-garde
Transfigured Notes associatedWith American avant-garde
High Kukus hasArtisticMovement American avant-garde cinema
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Carl Ruggles influenced American avant-garde composers
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George Manupelli movement American avant-garde cinema
linked to: American avant-garde
P. Adams Sitney workFocusesOn American avant-garde film
linked to: American avant-garde