Volume 14, Number 5 · March 12, 1970

After the Avant-Garde

By Roger Shattuck
The Theory of the Avant-Garde
by Renato Poggioli, translated by Gerald Fitzgerald

Harvard, 250 pp., $6.50

The Art of Time: Essays on the Avant-Garde
by Michael Kirby

Dutton, 255 pp., $5.95

The Eclipse of the Intellectual
by Elémire Zolla, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

Funk & Wagnalls, 301 pp., $5.95

Continuities
by Frank Kermode

Random House, 238 pp., $5.95

Histoire de l'avant-garde en peinture
by Germain Bazin

Hachette (Paris), 229, illustrated pp., 125 francs

The Avant-Garde in Painting
by Germain Bazin, translated by Simon Watson Taylor

Simon & Schuster, 323, illustrated pp., $29.95

Historia de las literaturas de vanguardia
by Guillermo de Torre

Guadarrama (Madrid), 946, illustrated pp., 750 pesetas

Here in the streets of Paris you can still read many of the texts from May, 1968, and the best of them have been published. 'Art is dead. Godard can't save it.' 'La ville dont le prince est ETUDIANT…' If we are, in fact, going through a major culture crisis, how did we get here and where do we go?



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