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

By Stuart D. Hobbs

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814735398
• ISBN13: 9780814735398
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.0"