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The Challenge of the Avant-Garde (Art and Its Histories)
The Challenge of the AvantGarde - Art and Its Histories This book examines the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early- and mid-nineteenth century, the development of the avant-garde through the early twentieth century, and its eventual incorporation into the modern canon by the eve of World War II. Throughout this history Paul Wood relates the discourse of arti... more »stic avant-gardism to contemporary social and political thought.« less