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How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art

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"Engrossing...full of colorful characters and winning personal touches." -Michael Patrick Brady, Boston Globe


The strange story of the twentieth-century artists who sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life.

"Art has poisoned our life," proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-...