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Feast of excess : a cultural history of the new sensibility /
In 1952, John Cage shocked audiences with 4'33", his compositional ode to the ironic power of silence. From Cage's minimalism to Chris Burden's radical performance art two decades later (in one piece he had himself shot), the post-war American avant-garde shattered the divide bet...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The New Sensibility
- Prelude: A New Year : Judith Malina
- [I] Emergence, 1952-1960
- 1952: Sounds of Silence : John Cage
- 1953: Erasure and Addition : Robert Rauschenberg
- 1954: The Wild One : Marlon Brando
- 1955: Ever Mysterious : Patricia Highsmith
- 1956: Howling in the Wilderness : Allen Ginsberg
- 1957: "Great Balls of Fire" : Jerry Lee Lewis
- 1958: To "Nullify Explanation" : Robert Frank
- 1959: Making a Connection : Judith Malina and Jack Gelber
- 1960: All About Me : Norman Mailer
- [II] Explosion, 1961-1969
- 1961: Say What? : Lenny Bruce
- 1962: Pop Goes the Paradigm
- 1963: Picking His Nose at Tradition : Andy Warhol
- 1964: Naming the New : Susan Sontag
- 1965: "How Does It Feel?" : John Coltrane and Bob Dylan
- 1966: Living and Dying : Anne Sexton
- 1967: "Utmost Freedom of Imagination" : William Styron
- 1968: An "Extreme Gesture" : Gore Vidal
- [III] Cultural Commonplace, 1970-1974
- 1969: "Terribleness" : Amiri Baraka
- 1970: "I Just Love Freaks" : Diane Arbus
- 1971: Vegas, Baby! : Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Hunter Thompson
- 1972: Erectile Destruction : Samuel R. Delany and Thomas Pynchon
- 1973: Zipless Abandon : Erica Jong
- 1974: Crucified and Shot : Chris Burden
- Conclusion: The Shock of the Old...and New.