Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Renato Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the avant-garde is both symptom and cause of many major extra-aesthetic trends of our time, and that the contemporary avant-garde is the sole and authentic one.

Harvard University Press, 1994.
ISBN: 9780674882164. 250 pp.
Translated by Gerald Fitzgerald.
Softcover. Very good.
Spine faded.