The end of the American avant garde /

""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 conserv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hobbs, Stuart D. (Stuart Dale), 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 1997.
Colección:American social experience series ; 37.
Temas:
1900-1999
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > United States > History > 20th century.
ART > History > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Intellectual life.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward the last American vanguard, 1930-1955. Introduction : the avant garde and the culture of the future
  • The communist party, modernism, and the avant garde
  • The American avant garde, 1945-1960. Alienation
  • Innovation
  • The future
  • The end of the avant garde, 1950-1965. The cold war, cultural radicalism, and the defense of capitalism
  • Institutional enthrallment
  • Consumer culture commodification
  • The end of the avant garde, 1965-1995. The convention of innovation and the end of the future.

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