The End of the American Avant Garde
American Social Experience Series| By: | Stuart D. Hobbs |
| Publisher: | NYU Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780814735398 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780814773253 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1997 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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"By 1966, the composer Virgil Thomson would write, "Truth is, there is no avant-garde today." How did the avant garde dissolve, and why? In this thought-provoking work, Stuart D. Hobbs traces the avant garde from its origins to its eventual appropriation by a conservative political agenda, consumer culture, and the institutional world of art.