From: Gordon Fitch <gcf-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: culpability
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 22:40:19 -0500 (EST)


Ostrow/Kaneda:
> ... 
> I'm presently  working on re-evaluation of the historic Avant Garde as an
> agent of Bourgeois cultural maintainance rather than as a form of
> opposition in lightof it institutionalization since the late '50's.

Has the "avant-garde" ever been anything else?  "Epater les
bourgeois" -- because they _like_ it, no?  The whole concept
of a vanguard class in the arts leading and directing the
masses seems very bourgeois to me.

--
Gordon


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