The end of the American avant garde

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    • Hobbs, Stuart D. (Stuart Dale)

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The end of the American avant garde

Stuart D. Hobbs

(The American social experience series, 37)

New York University, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Toward the last American vanguard, 1930-1955. Introduction : the avant garde and the culture of the future
  • The communist party, modernism, and the avant garde
  • The American avant garde, 1945-1960. Alienation
  • Innovation
  • The future
  • The end of the avant garde, 1950-1965. The cold war, cultural radicalism, and the defense of capitalism
  • Institutional enthrallment
  • Consumer culture commodification
  • The end of the avant garde, 1965-1995. The convention of innovation and the end of the future

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"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.

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