Late modernism
Subtitle: art, culture, and politics in Cold War America
By: Robert Genter
Series: The arts and intellectual life in modern America; Arts and intellectual life in modern America
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780812242645
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Arts; American Arts; Intellectual life; History; Arts and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War; title: Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism; title: Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman; title: Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions; title: Pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians; title: A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills; title: Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love; title: Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns; title: Rethinking the feminine within: the cultural politics of James Baldwin; title: Pt. III. The challenge of late modernism; title: Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison; title: The legacy of late modernism.