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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.

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(<p> 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

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

<p> 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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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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