Breathless Days, 1959-1960

Herausgeber: Guilbaut, Serge

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking 1959-1960 as a pivotal cultural and political moment, the contributors to Breathless Days reframe postwar Western art history, examining the aesthetic and ideological alliances and tensions in art throughout Western Europe and the Americas. The collection provides a heterogeneous account of the intersections of the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba. This reveals the knotty and multilayered connections among these divergent artistic milieus. Whether discussing Duchamp's With My Tongue in My Cheek, Brazilian abstraction, postrevolutionary Cuban art, Jean Tinguely's self-destroying machines, or Burroughs's Naked Lunch, the contributors show this brief period to be a key to the cultural and political development of Western Europe and the Americas during the Cold War. Contributors. Carla Benzan, Clint Burnham, Jill Carrick, Eric de Chassey, Mari Dumett, Serge Guilbaut, Luc Lang, Hadrien Laroche, Aleca Le Blanc, Richard Leeman, Tom McDonough, Regis Michel, John O'Brian, Kjetil Rodje, Ludovic Tournès, Antonio Eligio (Tonel)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360414
• ISBN-10: 0822360411
• Artikelnr.: 44828277

Autorenporträt

Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brien, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction / Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brien  1
1. Cahiers du Cinéma Interview / Jean-Luc Godard  22
Part I. Cheek to Cheek in Paris and New York
2. Marcel Duchamp: The Signature Machine—Identity, Authority, Dispossession
/ Hadrien Laroche  31
3. The Young and the Old / Richard Leeman  60
4. Redefining the Boundaries of Culture: The French Experience of Jazz /
Ludovic Tournès  82
5. A Critical Season for Alan Katz / Éric de Chassey  99
6. The Cacodylic Mind: Francis Picabia and the Neo-Avant-Garde, 1953–1963 /
Tom McDonough  112
Part II. Violence, Machines, and Bodies
7. The Paradox of Time: Nouveau Réalisme's Curious "Archaeology of the
Present" / Jill Carrick  129
8. To Be an "Exemplary" Machine: Tinguely's Homage to New York / Mari
Dumett  152
9. Naked Lunch and the Neighbor / Clint Burnbaum  177
10. Bodybuilding or Bodycrushing? From Art to Theater: From Bodies to
Corpses, a Rhizomatic Meditation on the Contemporary West / Regis Michel 
191
Part III. Time Is Longer Than Any Distance
11. Action Writing/Action Reading / Luc Lang  205
12. From the Genius in the Mountain to the Party in the Dark: Art, Cinema,
and Cultural Politics at the Beginning of the Cuban Revolution / Antonio
Eligio (Tonel)  211
13. Disorder and Progress in Brazilian Visual Culture, 1959 / Aleca Le
Blanc  234
14. That Tingling Sensation: 1959 and William Castle's The Tingler / Kjetil
Radje  255
15. Atopic Atomic: Picro Manzoni's Space-Age Subtext and the "Ins and Outs"
of the Modern Intellectual / Carla Benzan  275
Selected Bibliography  313
Contributors  319
Index  323