The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar AmericaThe 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 |
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Inhalt
The Emergence of an AvantGarde | 15 |
The AvantGarde and the American Indian | 44 |
Ideogram | 78 |
Subjectivity Existentialism and Plastic Dialogue | 103 |
Subjectivity in the Energy Field The Influence of Alfred North Whitehead | 120 |
Gestalt | 142 |
The Body in Plastic Dialogue Dance and Ceramics | 157 |
Bebop | 179 |
The Beats | 196 |
Battling the Social Neurosis | 222 |
Into the Sixties | 247 |
Notes | 261 |
| 317 | |
Credits | 331 |
| 335 | |
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| Titel | The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America |
| Autor/in | Daniel Belgrad |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | University of Chicago Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0226041905, 9780226041902 |
| Länge | 343 Seiten |
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