基本説明
Provides the reader with valuable insight into a demise that set the stage for the present period of postmodern culture and poststructuralist thought.
Full 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.
