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a35d265 What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants. art avant-garde confidence culture david-foster-wallace ebullience idealism irony meta-modernism metaphor post-ironic postmodernism shia-lebouf Robert Hughes