A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes


To introduce the ideas and imagination of an avant-garde artist such as Richard Kostelanetz, a link is provided here to a selection of his book  A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes from Google-books. The preface and introduction clarify and distinguish art that is avant-garde and what is not, but avoid conceptualizing, as difficult as that may seem, which would be misleading or contradictory.

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Sorry, wordpress.com doesn’t allow embeds, I guess, so the link is it. You can go to tumblr and see it on page, same diff.

http://deerbrookeditions.tumblr.com/post/145617650910/to-introduce-the-ideas-and-imagination-of-an

Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz’s work in several fields appear in various editions of Wikipedia.

https://books.google.cat/books?id=Tsq6NDST_b0C&lpg=PA1987&dq=richard%20kostelanetz&hl=ca&pg=PA1987&output=embed

FictionFields by Richard Kostelanetz available here

F.Fields cover grab

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