The End of the American Avant Garde: American Social Experience Series

Hobbs, Stuart D.

"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.

EAN

9780814735381

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

1 February 1997

Pages

242