| Author/Contributor(s): | Hobbs, Stuart D |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Date: | 01/01/2000 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.