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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.
Price: $107.00
Pages: 242
Publisher: NYU Press
Imprint: NYU Press
Publication Date:
01 February 1997
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780814735381
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
ART / History / General
"A significant work for intellectual and cultural historians, this is a tight, . . . focused examination of an important aspect of recent American culture."