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Author(s): George Cotkin
ISBN(s): 9780190218478, 0190218479
Edition: 1
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0190218479
ISBN 13: 9780190218478
Author: George Cotkin

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 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 towards 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.

Feast of Excess A Cultural History of the New Sensibility 1st Table of contents:

Part I Emergence, 1952–1960
1. 1952: Sounds of Silence: John Cage
2. 1953: Erasure and Addition: Robert Rauschenberg
3. 1954: The Wild One: Marlon Brando
4. 1955: Ever Mysterious: Patricia Highsmith
5. 1956: Howling in the Wilderness: Allen Ginsberg
6. 1957: “Great Balls of Fire”: Jerry Lee Lewis
7. 1958: “To Nullify Explanation”: Robert Frank
8. 1959: Making a Connection: Judith Malina and Jack Gelber
9. 1960: All About Me: Norman Mailer
Part II Explosion, 1961–1968
10. 1961: Say What?: Lenny Bruce
11. 1962: Pop Goes the Paradigm
12. 1963: Picking His Nose at Tradition: Andy Warhol
13. 1964: Naming the New: Susan Sontag
14. 1965: “How Does It Feel?”: John Coltrane and Bob Dylan
15. 1966: Living and Dying: Anne Sexton
16. 1967: “Utmost Freedom of Imagination”: William Styron
17. 1968: “An Extreme Gesture”: Gore Vidal
Part III Cultural Commonplace, 1969–1974
18. 1969: “Terribleness”: Amiri Baraka
19. 1970: “I Just Love Freaks”: Diane Arbus
20. 1971: Vegas, Baby!: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Hunter S. Thompson
21. 1972: Erectile Destruction: samuel r. delany and thomas pynchon
22. 1973: Zipless Abandon: Erica Jong
23. 1974: Crucified and Shot: Chris Burden

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