The Changing of the Avant-Garde Written and narrated by Edwin Mullins
At the avant-garde art festival in Kassel, Germany, this summer, an American artist sank a brass rod one kilometre deep into the .ground. A fellow contributor sailed a vast paper-boat from Bremen and beached it in the park.
Is this conceptual art at its best - or is the public being taken for a ride? What is avant-garde art? Do we need it?
In this film, EDWIN MULLINS traces key developments in the role of the avant-garde over the last five centuries, from Renaissance Florence to the present day, exploring the work of artists as varied as Giotto, Titian, Manet, Duchamp and contemporary artist Nam June ! Paik.
Film cameraman NAT CROSBY Film editor JULIAN MILLER
Executive producer BILL MORTOn Producer TONY CASH
Director ROBIN LOUGH