| Title | : | The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde: Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 170 (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| Release | : | 2019-02-26 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Nonfiction |
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| 1 | The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde: | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| One of the commonest and most loosely used terms in any discussion of contemporary art is the word avant-garde. Indeed it often seems to be taken for granted that valid contemporary art and avant-garde art are synonymous. Yet it doesn't take much thought to perceive that this assumption is unsafe, since it involves contradictions that cannot easily be resolved. |
