From January, 1968, through July, 1971, Ginzburg published "Avant Garde", a handsome softbound periodical. Ginzburg's age and federal conviction had calmed him down some by this time: "Avant Garde" could not be termed obscene, but it is filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language. One cover featured a naked pregnant woman; another had a parody of Willard's famous patriotic painting, "The Spirit of '76", with a white woman and a black man.