Feast of excess : a cultural history of the new sensibility
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Feast of excess : a cultural history of the new sensibility
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- Feast of excess : a cultural history of the new sensibility
- Title remainder
- a cultural history of the new sensibility
- Statement of responsibility
- George Cotkin
- Subject
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- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature | 20th century | History and criticism
- Art, American
- Art, American -- 20th century
- Art, American | 20th century
- Artists
- Artists -- United States -- Biography
- Artists | United States | Biography
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) | United States | History | 20th century
- Biography
- Civilization
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Extremists
- Extremists -- United States -- Biography
- Extremists | United States | Biography
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- History
- Intellectual life
- Intellectuals
- Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
- Intellectuals | United States | Biography
- Kultur
- Kunst
- MUSIC -- History & Criticism
- MUSIC / History & Criticism
- Performance art
- Performance art -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Performance art | United States | History | 20th century
- Since 1900
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- United States | Civilization | 1945-
- ART -- American | General
- United States | Intellectual life | 20th century
- ART / American / General
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
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- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 973.91
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E169.12
- LC item number
- .C645 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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