Title: After the avant-garde :
Authors: Boyers, Robert.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Physical description: viii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: Visionary avante-garde -- Clement Greenberg and the modernist theory of value -- Heresies of modern art -- "The dehumanization of art" revisited -- Language theory and the promise of translation -- Translation and the status of the poem -- Real readers and theoretical critics -- Moral fiction? -- Weightless characters -- Post-modernism and politics -- Tyranny and language -- John Ashbery : a quest without an object -- Swollen gates : the case for a homosexual tradition -- Explanation and conviction in Godard : The married woman -- Feminism and film -- Bergman and women -- Secular vision, transcendental style : the art of Yasujiro Ozu -- Politics and history : pathways in European film.
Subject headings (LCSH): Arts, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.; Arts, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.