Does "their works" in the following context mean "the works of the radical wing of the late twentieth-century avant-garde" or "the works of historical avant-garde"?
Context:
The radical wing of the late twentieth-century avant-garde in art did not just appropriate forms and approaches from the historical avant-garde, but took their works into the street. Again this is highly reminiscent of practices established in Russia shortly after the October Revolution of 1917, when the notion of fine art was discredited and replaced by the more directly socially relevant categories of agitational propaganda art (agit-prop), laboratory art and production art.
"Their works" = "the works of historical avant-garde" If "their works" had been written "the works of this earlier movement" the sentence would have been much clearer.
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"Their works" = "the works of historical avant-garde"
If "their works" had been written "the works of this earlier movement" the sentence would have been much clearer.