Re: Michael Berube on Thomas Frank

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hoover wrote:
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> [clip]
> according to former situationist/art historian t. j. clark, the
> avant-garde is an unabashed form of social climbing...[clip]

That makes sense, though it might have applied a bit differently to what
was called the avant-garde at the close of the 19th & the beginning of
the 20th c. An "advanced guard" ought to be in advance of something
signifciant following? :-) And that could be said of a number of
musicians, writers, and painters from that earlier period, but since
then "avant-gardes" haven't been in advance of much besides more of
themselves!

Carrol