@article{756921,
      recid = {756921},
      author = {Cotkin, George,},
      title = {Feast of excess a cultural history of the new sensibility  / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource ( viii, 433 pages) :},
      abstract = {"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  postwar American avant-garde shattered the divide between  low and high art, between artist and audience. They changed  the cultural landscape. Feast of Excess is an engaging and  accessible portrait of 'The New Sensibility, ' as it was  named by Susan Sontag in 1965. The New Sensibility sought  to push culture in extreme directions: either toward stark  minimalism or gaudy maximalism. Through vignette profiles  of prominent figures--John Cage, Patricia Highsmith, Allen  Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Anne Sexton, John Coltrane, Bob  Dylan, Erica Jong, and Thomas Pynchon, to name a  few--George Cotkin presents their bold, headline-grabbing  performances and places them within the historical moment.  This inventive and jaunty narrative captures the excitement  of liberation in American culture. The roots of this  release, as Cotkin demonstrates, began in the 1950s, boomed  in the 1960s, and became the cultural norm by the 1970s.  More than a detailed immersion in the history of cultural  extremism, Feast of Excess raises provocative questions for  our present-day culture"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/756921},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190218478},
}