 | The End of the American Avant Garde: American Social Experience Series "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. Hobbs Stuart D. : A historian with the Ohio Historical Society, Stuart D. Hobbs received his Ph.D. in American History from Ohio State University. |
