“…an engrossing survey, full of colorful characters and winning personal touches” The Boston Globe
“With a talent for setting the scene and rendering vivid portraits, Falconer brings the stories of these artists, each with conflicting agendas, into one comprehensible argument” The Times Literary Supplement
“How to Be Avant-Garde can take its place alongside such mainstays as Roger Shattuck’s The Banquet Years and Robert Hughes’s The Shock of the New as a lively and thought-provoking survey of the twentieth century’s most impactful contribution to cultural life” Mark Polizzotti, author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton
“A future classic along the lines of Lipstick Traces” Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray
“Pitch-perfect” Jerry Saltz, Pulitzer prize-winner
Morgan Falconer is a writer and critic based in New York.
He has written about art and culture for publications including The Times, The Guardian, The Economist, Frieze, & Art Journal. His books include How to Be Avant-Garde (W.W. Norton), and Painting Beyond Pollock (Phaidon). He has lectured and taught at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and the Pratt Institute.
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Morgan Falconer is represented by Aevitas Creative Management
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