Yumeno Kyūsaku
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Yumeno Kyūsaku was the pen name of Sugiyama Yasumichi, an early Shōwa period Japanese author, Zen priest, post office director and sub-lieutenant. The pen name roughly means "a person who always dream
Yumeno Kyūsaku
Avant-garde
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In the arts and literature, the term avant-garde identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideol
Yumeno Kyūsaku
…roughly means "a person who always dreams". His Dharma name was Goshin-in Gin'en Taidō-koji (悟真院吟園泰道居士). He wrote detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bizarre narratives. Yumeno was born in Fukuoka city, Fukuoka prefecture as Sugiyama Naoki…
Avant-garde cinema, The Love of Zero (1927), a short film directed by the artist Robert Florey
Political revolution has influenced both the topic and form in The Overthrow of the Autocracy, a Soviet avant-garde painting circa the Russian Revolution.
The cultural provocation of avant-garde art: Fountain (1917) by Marcel Duchamp. (Alfred Stieglitz)
In "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), Walter Benjamin addresses the artistic and cultural, social, economic, and political functions of art in a capitalist society.