The culture of spontaneity : improvisation and the arts in postwar America / Daniel Belgrad.
The culture of spontaneity : improvisation and the arts in postwar America / Daniel Belgrad.
The culture of spontaneity : improvisation and the arts in postwar America / Daniel Belgrad.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N700.1030973/5
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English
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xii, 343 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. The Collective Unconscious. 1. The Emergence of an Avant-Garde. 2. The Avant-Garde and the American Indian. 3. Ideogram -- Pt. 2. The Energy Field. 4. Subjectivity, Existentialism, and Plastic Dialogue. 5. Subjectivity in the Energy Field: The Influence of Alfred North Whitehead. 6. Gestalt....
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Illinois
Date Published
1998.
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Through sensitive and skillful readings of the artistic works as well as deft explications of their social, political, and intellectual contexts, Belgrad reconstructs the mentality of this counterculture, recovers its particular vocabulary, and describes how the aesthetic of spontaneity contradicted the dominant consumer society of the 1950s. Focus...
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The culture of spontaneity : improvisation and the arts in postwar America / Daniel Belgrad.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-329) and index.
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N700.1030973/5
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0226041905
9780226041889 (alk. paper)
0226041883 (alk. paper)
9780226041902
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700.1030973
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991001695909702626
