In this Book
- The End of the American Avant Garde: American Social Experience Series
- Book
- 1997
- Published by: NYU Press
summary
"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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Part I. Toward the Last American Vanguard 1930-1955
- Part II. The American Avant Garde 1945-1960
- Chapter 3. Alienation
- pp. 41-57
- Chapter 4. Innovation
- pp. 59-91
- Chapter 5, The Future
- pp. 93-111
- Part III. The End of the Avant Garde 1950-1965
- Chapter 7. Institutional Enthrallment
- pp. 125-138
- Chapter 8. Consumer Culture Commodification
- pp. 139-168
- Part IV. The End of the Avant Garde 1965-1995
- Bibliographical Essay
- pp. 215-224
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814744857
Related ISBN(s)
9780814735381
MARC Record
OCLC
859686381
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-31
Language
English
Open Access
No