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Late modernism : art, culture, and politics in Cold War America /
In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism--Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky--and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way t...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War
- Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism
- Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman
- Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions
- pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians
- A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills
- Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love
- Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns
- Rethinking the feminine within: the cultural politics of James Baldwin
- pt. III. The challenge of late modernism
- Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison
- The legacy of late modernism.