| The introductory essay overviews the subject of how avant-gardes function in the context of mass popular culture and high art. |
| Harding wants to expel the ghost of Theory so that other, more performance-friendly theories of the avant-gardes might thrive. |
| In continental Europe, the crossover between the visual arts and rock and roll was fostered by the overlapping of the artistic and musical avant-gardes and an awareness of industrial culture. |
| This Biennale Centenary, therefore, offered me the opportunity to attempt a critique of the system of avant-gardes and of certain idees recues. |
| Never, in fact, until that moment, had the legitimacy of pictorial practice in the context of the development of avant-gardes been theorized with such seriousness. |
| This silence made Atget the object of consensual approbation among the photographic avant-gardes of the period, the keystone of photographic modernity. |
