In What Context Did the Notion of an Avant-Garde Among

question 46

Multiple Choice

In what context did the notion of an avant-garde among artists first appear?

• A) discussions by bourgeois members of the "café society" in Paris
• B) alternative exhibitions of artists who had been rejected by the Salon
• C) the writings of Karl Marx
• D) in programs of French utopian socialists

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