But engaging with Pollock’s avant-gardism certainly isn’t the investment of time and effort that reading “Ulysses” is. For perspective, it takes me around five minutes to read one page of ...

SIR - Anyone who doubts your leading article's claim that avant-gardism is now establishment art (leader, Jun 21) should visit the present students' finals show at the Royal Academy schools.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Inside the Performing Garage on Wooster Street in SoHo, chaos reigns. We’re deep into the afternoon rehearsal ...

The avant-garde probably never looked as moderate and conservative as it did in 1888, when a group of young, bearded French painters founded a group known as "Les Nabis." The facial hair was not ...

Yuri Davydov (1929–2007) was a philosopher, sociologist and literary critic, specialised in the history of social research on the Arts. The present book analyses the origins of literary avant-gardism, ...

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It’s a warm day in late May, and at the headquarters of Hermès in Paris, Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski, the head of ...

Yuri Davydov (1929–2007) was a philosopher, sociologist and literary critic, specialised in the history of social research on the Arts. The present book analyses the origins of literary avant-gardism, ...

And he needed it: when he took one of the boldest artistic choices made by any 20th- century composer and rejected avant-gardism – thus setting in train the stylistic liberalisation that allows ...

Darius Jones, the bracing and celebrated American alto saxophonist and composer, admits that his knowledge of French is “non-existent.” Still, Jones was not deterred from initiating and ...