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 ...
But such is the case with the aptly titled “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”—an enlightening, beautifully orchestrated show of some 110 paintings ...
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 ...