War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

Drips, splatters, stains and brushwork. High-brow critics may adore it, but abstract art leaves many folks dazed and confused. Relatively few people buy or collect original art, even in an art- ...

Reading about the history of Polish avant-garde theatre in the first decades of the 20th century, one might get the impression that the work of women was, at the time, almost non-existent. That there ...

A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world ...

At a time when most people equated animation with Mickey Mouse, Oskar Fischinger's abstract films were taking animation in a new, challenging direction. His short "visual music" films are credited ...