Feast of excess [electronic resource] : a cultural history of the new sensibility / George Cotkin.
Cotkin, George, 1950- author.
2016
E169.12 .C645 2016eb
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Title Feast of excess [electronic resource] : a cultural history of the new sensibility / George Cotkin.
Author Cotkin, George, 1950- author.
ISBN 9780190218508 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190218478
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource ( viii, 433 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190218478 doi
Call Number E169.12 .C645 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.92
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

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