Catch A Dictionary Of The Avant-Gardes Articulated By Richard Kostelanetz Presented As File

from a terrible critic, saved from a onestar 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 A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes's lethal combination of arrogant, sweeping dismissals of some great artists laughing forever at the fact Kostelanetz, writing in ', 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 fartsniffing appraisal of.
. . himself, bizarre aesthetic judgments and a weird aversion to women, An important resource for me but Kostelanetz's omissions and flatulent, dismissive treatment of certain figures
see his entry for Charles Bernstein are telling.
A few obscure and pretentious inclusions, especially among the visual poets, but the books overall scope and the synthesis it achieves ultimately redeem these faults.
A Dictionary of the AvantGardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts, It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance artas well as

architecture, science, and culture, .