When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. HOW TO BE AVANT-GARDE: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art, by Morgan Falconer In July 1915 ...

But being avant-garde, Mr. Falconer reminds us, meant going yet further and abandoning art as traditionally conceived. “Humanity will not lose much by missing art,” the painter Piet Mondrian ...

At an earlier iteration of that fair, after perusing the art ... book’s final character, the French philosopher Guy Debord, was a theorist of what came next: the spectacle. So-called Neo-avant ...