The end of the American avant garde
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The end of the American avant garde
（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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Description
"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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