Avant-Garde in the CornfieldsA close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy Avant Garde in the Cornfields is an in depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest renowned as the site of two successive Utopian settlements during the nineteenth century: the Harmonists and the Owenites. During the Cold War years of the twentieth century, New Harmony became a spiritual