[DOC] Modes for Guitar (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons) by TOM KOLB in Arts-Photography

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Was there a sudden break in the world of art; literature; and music when modernism gave way to postmodernism?Philip Nel attacks the notion of tremendous and sudden change in artistic understanding and literary practice. Instead; in The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks he proposes that a series of small but far-reaching changes drew understanding from modernism to postmodernism.What bonds these two periods together? The constant agent of change; Nel argues; was the avant-garde. Tracking its influence on novelists; popular culture figures; and childrenrsquo;s authors; this book re-evaluates how twentieth-century culture has been traditionally divided into ldquo;modernrdquo; and ldquo;postmodern.rdquo;Suggesting that a modernism and postmodernism division prevents accurate evaluation of a work; Nel realigns our conceptions of twentieth-century literature; art; and music. Focusing on eight figures―Nathanael West; Djuna Barnes; Dr. Seuss; Donald Barthelme; Don DeLillo; Chris Van Allsburg; Laurie Anderson; and Leonard Cohen―as representative; The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity examines works along a spectrum of political involvement.This first book to analyze postmodern childrenrsquo;s literature revives the radical Dr. Seuss by reading him alongside avant-garde artists. Nel argues that Chris Van Allsburg speaks the internet generationrsquo;s vernacular; using a surrealist idiom to pose questions that linger beyond his picture booksrsquo; final pages.The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity is a nuanced and wide-ranging re-reading of how postmodernism displays artrsquo;s ability to imagine a better world.