The Challenge of the Avant-gardePaul Wood This book traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-nineteenth century, the significant shifts in the development of the avant-garde through the later nineteenth and early twentieth century, and its eventual incorporation as a form of modern canon by the eve of World War II. |
Contents
Preface | 6 |
THE EARLY AVANTGARDE | 35 |
THE AVANTGARDE IN ITS OWN RIGHT | 113 |
THE POINT IS TO CHANGE | 183 |
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