Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff (born 1947 in Suresnes, lives and works in Paris) is an artist, performer, poet, art historian and critic, and
Fluxus theorist.
Antigone Mouchtouris (born 1951 in Athens), sociologist, professor emeritus at the University of Lorraine, is a specialist in the sociology of culture and the public.
Louis Ucciani is professor emeritus of
philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon (France). Specialist in utopian movements and artistic avant-gardes, author of numerous essays (on
Charles Fourier, Epicurus, Saint Augustine, Plotinus,
Jean Messagier), he is also responsible for the reviews
Luvah,
PHILOSOPHIQUE, and
Cahiers Charles Fourier, and runs the Centre d'Art Mobile.