Mekas strategically attached himself to rising avant-garde figures.

Evidence

While affording Mekas license to wipe clean the slate and reinvent the movies virtually from scratch, Pull My Daisy suited his other needs. Not for the last time would Mekas hitch his wagon to an avant-garde star. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 78

Categorization

• XREF: Interesting against the romantic notion of a pure, market-free avant-garde — connects to reader’s framework of scenes becoming markets.