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

by Stuart D. Hobbs

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814735398
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	American Social Experience Series; 37
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

A historian with the Ohio Historical Society, Stuart D. Hobbs received his Ph.D. in American History from Ohio State University.

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"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

Editorial Reviews

"A significant work for intellectual and cultural historians, this is a tight, . . . focused examination of an important aspect of recent American culture."

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"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

"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

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