The End of the American Avant Garde : : American Social Experience Series / / Stuart D. Hobbs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hobbs, Stuart D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Part I. Toward the Last American Vanguard 1930-1955 --; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Avant Garde and the Culture of the Future --; Chapter 2. The Communist Party, Modernism, and the Avant Garde --; Part II. The American Avant Garde 1945-1960 --; Chapter 3. Alienation --; Chapter 4. Innovation --; Chapter 5. The Future --; Part III. The End of the Avant Garde 1950-1965 --; Chapter 6. The Cold War, Cultural Radicalism, and the Defense of Capitalism --; Chapter 7. Institutional Enthrallment --; Chapter 8. Consumer Culture Commodification --; Part IV. The End of the Avant Garde 1965-1995 --; Chapter 9. The Convention of Innovation and the End of the Future --; Notes --; Bibliographical Essay --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814744857; 9783110716924
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814744857.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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.