The End of the American Avant Garde : American Social Experience Series /
Hobbs, Stuart D.
The End of the American Avant Garde : American Social Experience Series / Stuart D. Hobbs. - 1 online resource
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
"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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814735381 9780814744857
10.18574/nyu/9780814744857.001.0001 doi
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--United States--20th century.
ART / History / General.
E169.12 / .H59 1997eb
973
The End of the American Avant Garde : American Social Experience Series / Stuart D. Hobbs. - 1 online resource
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
"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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814735381 9780814744857
10.18574/nyu/9780814744857.001.0001 doi
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--United States--20th century.
ART / History / General.
E169.12 / .H59 1997eb
973