ART ATTACK

A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
by Marc Aronson

Art Attack

Avant-Garde Art Links

Here are some links that relate to people and movements which I discuss in ART ATTACK. For example, most of the artwork which I supplied in black and white can be found on the web in color, and if you follow these links you'll find it. Some of these sites are truly amazing, and they are worth exploring for that reason alone. I found them using standard search engines, and I have neither confirmed the information on them nor prowled around widely enough to know exactly what they contain. I strongly urge anyone who visits these sites to treat their contents with caution, as you would anything else you heard or read. You may well find great links that enhance or should replace these. Terrific. That only means the book has worked, and you cared enough to search for them.

To see one of the relatively few photos that were taken inside of the Armory Show, go to http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jconte/Armory_Show.html

For the complete works of both Baudelaire and Rimbaud in French www.le-chateau.ilias.com/poesie.htm

There are great resources for online artwork, covering just about every artist in this book Mark Harden has been quite helpful, see lonestar.texas.net/~mharden/ this takes you to the "artchive," select the artist whose work you want to see, and that will lead you to individual works.

watt.emf.net/ takes you to a huge listing of web art sites
sunsite.unc.edu/wm is one of these, and it is has many images that suit ART ATTACK

For Dada there is a site whose text is in Italian, though it has some English operating instructions, and much good art: http://art.dada.it/

One great site for everything related to the Russian avant-garde is http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/

For Kerouac try
www.levity.com/corduroy/kerouac.htm
it will lead to other links involving the Beats

I found some photos of the Beat period, including the Cedar Bar at photoarts.com/bell/artists/cohen2.html

A one-stop starting place for Woodstock searches is www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/3869/
I didn't include any photos of this event, and there are plenty here

While I've avoided listing the many sites for individual rock groups and musicians, this is worth including:
www.Jimi-hendrix.com/

You can see the contrast with Cage easily by going to http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/
you can read an autobiographical statement of his, which has its own links; newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html

For Warhol: Johnson64.simplenet.com/warhol and http://www.warhol.org/

A site that wants to sell you T-shirts, but also does help give you a sense of Max's Kansas City is www.maxskansascity.com/

To see more on the Guerilla Girls: http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

Art Attack: the book Avant-Garde Links Marc Aronson

art face Cover art copyright Chris Raschka.

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