Avant-garde artists framed their work as needed for an impending new era

Evidence

Foreman’s review, which to my twenty-year-old mind made the play sound irresistible, ended by warning that Voice readers had “better keep their fingers crossed” that the piece would be reprised and, if so, they “better make sure they attend—because in this new Aquarian Age, or in the 1970s, or in whatever new era we’re coming upon, this is the kind of the theater we need.” His admonition was one more threat in a year filled with them. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1519

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘one more threat in a year filled with them’ line is a compact example archive: threats as a genre of 1968 cultural discourse.
• XREF: connects to: Early modernists saw industrial city life as demanding a fundamentally new art — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 143; Russian avant-garde artists deliberately fused aesthetic and political revolution — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 242