The End of the American Avant Garde : : American Social Experience Series / / 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 ag...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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