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Author Aronson, Marc.

Title Art attack : a short cultural history of the avant-garde / Marc Aronson.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [1998]
©1998
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 700.411 Aronso Art 1998    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Description 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.
Summary Discusses the arts, life styles, politics, and fashions while tracing the story of bohemians, radicals, hipsters, and hippies from Paris in the nineteenth century to contemporary America.
Contents A Nude in New York -- Village nation -- Nijinsky against the world -- Breaking the rules : bohemianism -- The flowers of evil -- Two strange picnics -- "The disorder of my mind" -- Rite of spring, rite of death -- Art is dead -- "Abolition of logic: Dada" -- An icon for our times -- Machines -- "Our business is rejoicing" -- Surrealism -- Broadway boogie woogie -- Art = truth -- Cool is hot and hot is cool -- Woodstock nation -- "Turn on, tune in, drop out" -- Two walks in the park -- Plastic -- No future -- "When racism & sexism are no longer fashionable what will your art collection be worth?" -- Nothing but Net -- My generation.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
France -- Paris.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Arts and society -- France -- Paris -- Juvenile literature.
Arts and society.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
United States.
Arts and society -- United States.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
ISBN 0395797292
9780395797297

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