The art of confession
Subtitle: the performance of self from Robert Lowell to reality tv
By: Chrisopher Grobe
Publisher: NYU Press; New York University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781479882083; 9781479829170
Subjects: Confession stories; Poetry and the arts; Reality television programs; Social aspects; Performance art; Spoken word poetry
Description: "The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --
Table of contents: title: The breath of a poem; title: Self-consciousness raising; title: Just talk; title: Broadcast yourself.