On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Trouble for me, with "avant-garde", is that it can be used to mean anything
> from crap to brilliant
That's not a problem for me - it doesn't so much have a value-implication
as an orientation-implication, viz. one's not interested in what most
people are doing but is also concerned with forging a new practice.
> But, I suppose, if you read it somewhere then it must be true.
What I was trying not to say was that I thought but wasn't sure that
Bernstein had said it (which would be itself illuminating). I could look
it up if you're in the custom of being cynical.
HM
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