The End of the American Avant Garde - American Social Experience Series

"Hobbs provides ample grounds for readers to ponder the interplay between particular movements in the arts and a larger American culture in the late 1950s and early 1960s."
"--American Historical Review"
"A significant work for intellectual and cultural historians, this is a tight, . . . focused examination of an important aspect of recent American culture."
"--Choice"
"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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Stuart D. Hobbs

Summary

In this thought provoking work, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart D Hobbs, Stuart D. Hobbs, Larry Kramer
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780814735398
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-3539-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Series: American Social Experience Ser; American Social Experience Ser; The American Social Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)