<p>Within avant-garde communities, especially for the last century or so, one would almost think that we each spring, like monocled Athenas, from the split forehead of a god. But few have ever been born within the eternal network of the avant-garde, and even those who have been were children once. Childhood and family represent the most intimate links to the world from which the avant-garde departs: from what is worth saving of it, from what needs destroyed, or elements of both. There are as many ways of living and relating to one's origins within the avant-garde as there are in society at large; and the ways in which avant-gardists respond and relate to their families and childhoods define the modes, the strengths, and the weaknesses of their own understandings of the world that they create and the communities they form. And yet the discussion of family is scarcely to be seen, especially within the past century, and often must be gleaned from the shadowy corners of their histories and their work. Here are a few hints of this fundamental but often invisible facet of the avant-garde experience.</p>

Avant the Avant-Garde: Childhood & Family in the culture of the Avant-Garde

Lindsann, Olchar E.

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