ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the concept of the neo-avant-garde to better understand the changes in art and culture of the 1960s, and addresses the specificity of artists' writings in the context of the changes. It considers how both content and language use in the writings were influenced by social and cultural processes in the postwar world and how the texts functioned in relation to artistic practices. The chapter analyses different chapters of Ten Lessons to show how they bring together various philosophical, political, and cultural discourses. It pays attention to what is said and how it is said, and how the interplay between the content-related and performative elements of the text reveals its heterogeneity against the background of transcultural phenomena of the time. The two most profound chapters of Ten Lessons are "On Revolutions" and "On Art"; the latter being the last lesson with the most confrontational message, serving as a culmination of the entire body of texts.
