Book Description
"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
"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.
About the author
An historian with the Ohio Historical Society, Stuart D. Hobbs received his Ph.D. in American History from Ohio State University.
