![]() Although the initial idea of “right” and “left” has shifted—and the current volume goes beyond that neat, but ultimately less applicable, binary—our thoughts were set in motion on the subject of experimental art that serves nonprogressive political ends. ![]() The conversation that began there—in the papers, among the panelists, and with the audience—continued to grow, and it is the genesis of this book. —Thomas Mann, “Tonio Kröger” In 2008, I chaired a seminar with Mike Sell at the American Society for Theater Research entitled “Vanguards of the Right.” The eleven scholars on our panel generated a fascinating body of research on fascist, totalitarian, and conservative avant-garde art. ![]() Preface In their innocence, people assume that beautiful and uplifting results must have beautiful and uplifting causes, and they never dream that the “gift” in question is a very dubious affair and rests upon extremely sinister foundations.
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