L'avant-garde russe face à la "terreur de l'histoire" : historiosophie et historiographie dans les Doski sub'by de Velimir Xlebnikov et dans l'art analytique de Pavel Filonov

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

La musicalité filmique : de l'avant-garde au cinéma contemporain, transformations temporelles et rythmiques

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Les relations entre la scène et le cinéma dans le spectacle d'avant-garde : une étude intermédiale et in situ de Relâche de Picabia, Satie et Clair

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« L’Écho des jeunes » : une avant-garde inachevée

La fin du XIXe siècle a connu, au Canada comme en Europe, une floraison de revues littéraires, parmi lesquelles « L'Écho des Jeunes », publié à Montréal, se distingue par son éclectisme et sa modernité. Cette revue est la création d'un groupe de jeunes qui, depuis la petite municipalité de Sainte-Cunégonde, noue des rapports étroits avec une partie de l'avant-garde française contemporaine. Elle s'efforcera pendant quelques années d'imposer un ton nouveau, entre décadence et symbolisme, parmi les jeunes poètes canadiens-français, juste avant la création de l'École littéraire de Montréal, dont beaucoup de ses collaborateurs deviendront membres. « L'écho des Jeunes » réussit à donner une expression convaincante de l'esprit fin-de-siècle répandu dans de petits milieux montréalais très originaux, trop négligés par l'histoire littéraire.

Le burlesque québécois : l'avant-garde version « peuple »

Tout le monde a entendu parler du burlesque, mais cette pratique reste le parent pauvre du champ théâtral. D'abord, parce qu'il a été longtemps discrédité, au Québec comme ailleurs. Mais aussi parce qu'on a peine à le définir et à le distinguer d'autres pratiques nord-américaines de la même époque, tels que les spectacles de variétés, le vaudeville américain et les revues. [...]

Modernist Success in a Postmodern Failure: Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism, the Avant-Garde and the Ascension of Late Capitalism, Art after 1945

It is hard to imagine the magnitude of the events at the end of World War II. The thought produced in the face of a myriad of deaths is almost unfeasible sixty years after the fact, but the energy was integral to the changing social landscape. Because of the country's prominence in and fortitude after the war, the U.S. was left responsible for reshaping and rejuvenating the international landscape that was destroyed by the years of brutal fighting and vile contestation. The American establishment was granted a major opportunity to establish itself amongst the global leaders. Such a grand responsibility must account for the multiplicity of thought that arises in such a decisive moment. In order to align the Abstract Expressionist art movement with the intersection of the intense, multifaceted thought developed during the postwar period, the following will discuss the political, philosophical, economic, and art historical overlap that occurred in the mid to late 1940s in the hopes of illustrating the fertility yet lingering problems associated with the restructuring of the world with America at the helm. In this way, the duration of the Abstract Expressionist moment will be better understood for both its triumphs and downfalls.

Gibberellic acid, ozone and 1-methylcyclopropene on the gray mold control in avant garde rose

Gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea is considered the major disease of greenhouse grown flowers. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of gibberellic acid (GA3), ozone, and 1-MCP, applied on postharvest, on the gray mold control in 'Avant Garde' rose. Rose flowers were artificially inoculated with B. cinerea (104 conidia ml-1) and non-inoculated. After treatments, roses were stored under room conditions (20±2°C/80±5% RH) and checked for gray mold incidence and severity. Spraying of GA3 at 25, 50, and 75 mg L-1 on non-inoculated roses reduced the area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) of gray mold incidence in 41, 40 and 54%, respectively. Continuous application of ozone at 2.7 ppm reduced 14-folds B. cinerea sporulation. On the other hand, 1-MCP did not control gray mould in rose. These results showed that GA3 sprays and ozone contribute to postharvest control of gray mold in cut rose and can be utilized on integrated disease management.

Avant-garde or supplement? Advisory bodies of transnational associations as alternatives to the League’s Minority Protection System, 1919-1939

This exegesis focuses on the work of minority committees of transnational associations in the interwar period. Most of their members considered the League system to be inefficient and supported the establishment of non-state alternatives, which included private investigations on the spot, publicity for specific problems of minorities, and attempts to reconcile representatives of ethnic minorities with those of the majority. Members of non-involved states were pre-destined especially to act as neutral moderators. Only those in close contact with League officials avoided being misused by political forces that did not seek reconciliation but border revision. They learnt that the League rules looked inadequate from the outside but turned out to be useful in coming to applicable solutions once they started their own alternative methods. Their publications and investigative journeys turned out to deepen the problems, whilst their reconciliation work became an appreciated supplement of the League system.