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In an era where the avant garde movements of Europe wanted to stray away from traditional representation and realism in favour of a more abs...

In the inter-war period, Germany was ripe for avant garde movements. The Bauhaus was started by Architect Walter Gropius in 1919 as a school...

The Constructivists in Russia aimed to create a form of art that was in line with communist values and was available for everyone. The same ...

After the October Revolution of 1917 and the overthrowing of the Tsarist regime, the Marx influenced Bolsheviks rose to power, led by Lenin....

One of the most aggressively nihilistic of the avant garde movements has to be Futurism. From the violent and assertive language in their ma...

Many of my past posts have touched on the avant garde and the neo avant garde, but in this post I would like to cumulate two of my courses t...

Photography is an important part of any avant-garde movement, as it shows the inclusion of new technologies and new modes of seeing, whilst ...