Compendium of texts on avant-garde artists and movements. Includes artists Richard Kostelanetz, William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Roy Lichtenstein, Vladimir Tatlin, Buster Keaton, Captain Beefheart, , Ad Reinhardt, Ezra Pound, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, Merce Cunningham, Bread and Puppet Theater. "This book elucidates, celebrates, enumerates, and sometimes obliterates achievers and achievements in the avant-garde arts." -- publisher's statement.