Reviews for The Dictionary of the Avant-Garde

The average rating for The Dictionary of the Avant-Garde based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-07 00:00:00 Carolyn Banks Yes Kostelanetz is opinionated. But damn is it a fine collection. Where else are you going to find "Rimbaud, Stein, Cage, Beefheart, electronic music, Reinhardt, Duchamp, Fuller, Paik, performance art, Reich, copy culture, etc." STUFF LIKE THIS MUST BE PROTECTED FROM THE PHILISTINES!!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-03-14 00:00:00 Shane Sanders trash from a terrible critic. saved from a one-star review by the amount of interesting topics it lists, which i shall take away and research elsewhere, in the works of other writers without this book's lethal combination of arrogant, sweeping dismissals of some great artists (laughing forever at the fact Kostelanetz, writing in '93, pompously dismisses Laurie Anderson as someone with no important work and Pierre Boulez as someone whose works won't endure after his death, yet doesn't detect the hubris in filling a whole page with a truly cringeworthy fart-sniffing appraisal of... himself), bizarre aesthetic judgments and a weird aversion to women.