The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 08.06.1998 - 343 Seiten The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, integrating such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain College, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the antinuclear movement. Daniel Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had one unifying theme: spontaneous improvisation. "A compelling narrative, putting living flesh on shorthand intuitions that connect North Beach to Black Mountain College, Fenollosa to Pollock, Jackson Lears's No Place of Grace to Todd Gitlin's The Sixties."—Joel Smith, Boston Review "An invaluable introduction to postwar modernism across the arts."—Thomas Augst, Boston Book Review "Belgrad's extensive probing of the artists and movements with their profound sociological roots is timely as well as comprehensive....A major contribution for serious scholars."—Choice |
Inhalt
The Collective Unconscious | 13 |
TWO The AvantGarde and the American Indian | 44 |
THREE Ideogram | 78 |
The Energy Field | 101 |
SIX Gestalt | 142 |
Dance and Ceramics | 157 |
Spontaneous Bop Prosody | 177 |
NINE The Beats | 196 |
TEN Battling the Social Neurosis | 222 |
Conclusion | 247 |
Notes | 261 |
Selected Bibliography | 317 |
Credits | 331 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abstract Expressionism abstract expressionist Adolph Gottlieb aesthetic of spontaneity Allen Ginsberg American Art American Indian art asserted avant-garde beat bebop Black Mountain College body canvas Charles Olson Charles Olson Papers collage communication consciousness corporate liberalism Creeley critics culture of spontaneity dance developed emphasized energy field essay existentialism existentialist experience forms Frankenthaler Gestalt Therapy gesture gesture-field painting glyph Harper and Row highbrow human Ibid idea ideogram ideological improvisation intellectual intersubjectivity Jack Kerouac Jack Tworkov Jackson Pollock John Jung Jungian Lee Krasner LeRoi Jones magazine Maya meaning middlebrow Modern Art Museum of Modern musicians oral Paalen painters palimpsest Partisan Review Paul Goodman physical plastic dialogue poem poet poetic poetry political postwar Projective Verse Prose prosody psychology quoted radical reality Robert Motherwell Shahn social society spontaneous art structure style surrealism surrealist symbols tion unconscious University Press Voulkos Whitehead Willem de Kooning William Carlos Williams writing wrote
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