Avant-Garde Studies

Avant-Garde Studies is based @birkbeck_arts and is open to all. To be added to the mailing list contact [email protected]

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Birkbeck isn't the only institution under attack. Support the @ucu strikes on 24, 25 and 30 November! #ucuRISING

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Sign this petition against redundancies at our host institution @BirkbeckUoL. These devastating cuts would endanger the future of Birkbeck and its unique model making education and research accessible for working people #SaveBirkbeck

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No job cuts at Birkbeck, University of London! #SaveBirkbeck

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The @DerekJarmanLab is crowdfunding for a short, experimental film based on an unpublished essay by the British-Mexican Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. To read more about the campaign, and to pledge money, visit: https://t.co/d4a4HNGJxb.

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Happy New Year! Starting 2022 with Hilma af Klint's 'Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece' (1915):

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Happy Holidays!

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Thanks to Mick Sheldon - and to everybody who took part - for a thought-provoking study group session on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Chandos Letter".

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We're now finished for the term, but we'll be back in the New Year. As usual, please get in touch if you'd like to suggest a topic for discussion: [email protected].

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Looking forward to this tomorrow!

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For our last study group before Christmas, Mick Sheldon is leading a discussion of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Ein Brief"/"The Letter of Lord Chandos" (1902). Online, Wed 15 Dec, 7:30pm (GMT). Contact [email protected] for the reading and a link to join. Come one, come all!

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Girl with Red Flagpole, 1933 #kazimirmalevich #neoclassicism

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For our last study group before Christmas, Mick Sheldon is leading a discussion of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Ein Brief"/"The Letter of Lord Chandos" (1902). Online, Wed 15 Dec, 7:30pm (GMT). Contact [email protected] for the reading and a link to join. Come one, come all!

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ROSTA Window 867 (1921), Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Solidarity with @BirkbeckUCU and @UCU members on strike this week ✊ #OneOfUsAllOfUs

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We'll be back on 15 December with Michael Sheldon, to discuss the Chandos Letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Thanks to @abigael_vA for leading such a stimulating discussion about the work of Blaise Cendrars!

Below: From Cendrars' 'The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame', illustrated by Fernand Léger

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This is tomorrow!

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We're excited about our next study group on Blaise Cendrars, which will be led by @abigael_vA. Contact [email protected] for the materials and link to join. All welcome. Online, 19:30 (GMT), Wed 17 Nov.

Below: Amedeo Modigliani's 'Portrait of Blaise Cendrars' (1917)

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@RobrtDaleParker @Facebook Unfair on Cendrars!

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We're excited about our next study group on Blaise Cendrars, which will be led by @abigael_vA. Contact [email protected] for the materials and link to join. All welcome. Online, 19:30 (GMT), Wed 17 Nov.

Below: Amedeo Modigliani's 'Portrait of Blaise Cendrars' (1917)

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THIS THREAD IS A FUTURIST-FREE ZONE

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Marking avant-garde opposition to WW1 on Remembrance Day. Käthe Kollwitz’s 'The Mothers', from 'War' (1923):

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Max Beckmann's The Grenade (1915):