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Notes ABBREVIATIONS USE D I N NOTE S AAA Archive s of American Art, Smithsonian Institutio n AAAR America n Abstract Artists Records, AAA AGP,CU Alle n Ginsberg Papers, C U AGP,SU Alle n Ginsberg Papers, Department of Special Collections, Stanfor d University Libraries BPP Bett y Parsons Papers and Gallery Records, AAA CLBR Cit y Lights Books Records, UC, B CU Rar e Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia Universit y DMacdP Dwigh t Macdonald Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library JCP Judso n C. Crews Papers, UCL A JKP Jac k Kerouac Papers, C U KRP Kennet h Rexroth Papers, UCL A MCP Malcol m Cowley Papers, The Newberry Librar y MRP Mar k Rothko Papers, AAA POP Pete r Orlovsky Papers, C U PWP Phili p Whalen Papers, C U REDP Rober t Edward Duncan Papers, UC,B SPP Stuar t Z. Perkoff Papers, UCL A UC,B Bancrof t Library , University of California, Berkele y UCLA Departmen t o f Special Collections, University Research Library , University of California, Lo s Angeles WBP Willia m Baziotes Correspondence an d Papers, AAA WTBP Willia m T. Brown Papers, AAA NOTES T O CHAPTE R I 1. Davi d Bernstein , editorial , The New Talent, July-August-September 1935 , 1-2. 187 188 • NOTE S T O CHAPTE R I 2. Virgi l Thomson, Virgil Thomson: An Autobiography (New York: E. P. Dutton , 1985) , 422. Irving Howe, ed., The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts (New York: Horizon Press, 1967) , 24. 3. Rober t Estivals, Jean-Charles Gaudy, and Gabrielle Vergez, UAvant-garde: Etude historique et sociologique des publications periodiques ayant pour titre "Uavantgarde " (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1968) , 21-22. 4. Donal d Egbert , "Th e Ide a o f th e 'Avant-Garde ' i n Ar t an d Politics, " American Historical Review 73 (1967): 339-366. 5. Mikle s Szabolcsi , "Avant-garde , Neo-avant-garde , Modernism: Question s and Suggestions, " New Literary History 3 (1971-1972) : 49-50 . Renat o Poggioli , The Theory of the Avant-Garde, trans . Geral d Fitzgeral d (Cambridge : Harvar d University Press, 1968), 9-12. Egbert, "Idea of the 'Avant-Garde,'" 359-360. 6. Osca r Cargill, Intellectual America: Ideas on the March (New York: Macmillan , 1942) , 176-310, 537-767. Merle Curti, The Growth of AmericanThought (New York: Harper an d Brothers , 1943) , 710-714. Henry F . May, The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time, 1912-1911 (Ne w York : Algred A . Knopf, 1959) . Lewis Perry, Intellectual Life in America: A History (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984) , 324-344, 417-424. 7. Joh n Higham , ed. , New Directions in American Intellectual History (Balti more : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979) ; for Higham's description , se e xvii. Warren I . Susman' s contributio n doe s trea t psychology , bu t i n a popular , no t avant-garde, context; see 212-226. 8. Fo r a summary of the origin of the term postmodern and the ideas associated with it , se e Thomas Docherty' s introductio n t o hi s anthology , Postmodernism: A Reader (Ne w York : Columbi a Universit y Press , 1993) , 1-31 . Joh n E . Toews , "Intellectual Histor y afte r th e Linguisti c Turn : Th e Autonom y o f Meaning an d the Irreduciblit y o f Experience," American Historical Review 92 (1987) : 879-907 , quotation on 882. 9. Ther e ar e man y ways t o carr y ou t a project i n th e histor y o f intellectua l discourse. My approac h t o th e subjec t ha s bee n shape d b y Davi d A . Hollinger . See his In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) , 130-151 . 10. Friedric h Nietzsche, The Will to Power (New York: Random House, 1968) , 423, 434, and passim. 11. Donal d Kuspit, The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist (Cambridge : Cambridg e University Press , 1993) , 1-27 . Davi d A . Hollinger , "Ho w Wid e th e Circl e o f 'We'? America n Intellectual s an d th e Proble m o f th e Ethno s sinc e Worl d Wa r II," American Historical Review 98 (1993): 317-337. 12. Milto n Singer , "Th e Concep t o f Culture, " i n Davi d L . Sill , ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social...