Feast of Excess, in brief vignette chapters of cultural creators, traces the history of excess in American culture, from 1952 to 1974. Such excess, in both direction of the minimal and the maximal, was focused on central concerns about madness, violence, sexuality, confession, performance, and breaking down barriers.
Feast of Excess, in brief vignette chapters of cultural creators, traces the history of excess in American culture, from 1952 to 1974. Such excess, in both direction of the minimal and the maximal, was focused on central concerns about madness, violence, sexuality, confession, performance, and breaking down barriers.
George Cotkin is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His previous books include Existential America (2005) and Morality's Muddy Waters (2010).
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: The New Sensibility * Prelude: A New Year: Judith Malina * Emergence, 1952 1960 * Ch. 1 1952: Sounds of Silence: John Cage * Ch. 2 1953: Erasure and Addition: Robert Rauschenberg * Ch. 3 1954: The Wild One: Marlon Brando * Ch. 4 1955: Ever Mysterious: Patricia Highsmith * Ch. 5 1956: Howling in the Wilderness: Allen Ginsberg * Ch. 6 1957: 'Great Balls of Fire': Jerry Lee Lewis * Ch. 7 1958: To 'Nullify Explanation': Robert Frank * Ch. 8 1959: Making a Connection: Judith Malina and Jack Gelber * Ch. 9 1960: All About Me: Norman Mailer * Explosion, 1961 1969 * Ch.10 1961: Say What? : Lenny Bruce * Ch.11 1962: Pop Goes the Paradigm * Ch.12 1963: Picking His Nose at Tradition: Andy Warhol * Ch.13 1964: Naming the New: Susan Sontag * Ch.14 1965: 'How Does It Feel?': John Coltrane and Bob Dylan * Ch.15 1966: Living and Dying: Anne Sexton * Ch.16 1967: 'Utmost Freedom of Imagination': William Styron * Ch.17 1968: An 'Extreme Gesture': Gore Vidal * Cultural Commonplace, 1970 1974 * Ch.18 1969: 'Terribleness': Amiri Baraka * Ch.19 1970: 'I Just Love Freaks': Diane Arbus * Ch.20 1971: Vegas, Baby!: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Hunter Thompson * Ch.21 1972: Erectile Destruction: Samuel R. Delany and Thomas Pynchon * Ch.22 1973: Zipless Abandon: Erica Jong * Ch.23 1974: Crucified and Shot: Chris Burden * Conclusion: The Shock of the Old and New * Index
* Introduction: The New Sensibility * Prelude: A New Year: Judith Malina * Emergence, 1952 1960 * Ch. 1 1952: Sounds of Silence: John Cage * Ch. 2 1953: Erasure and Addition: Robert Rauschenberg * Ch. 3 1954: The Wild One: Marlon Brando * Ch. 4 1955: Ever Mysterious: Patricia Highsmith * Ch. 5 1956: Howling in the Wilderness: Allen Ginsberg * Ch. 6 1957: 'Great Balls of Fire': Jerry Lee Lewis * Ch. 7 1958: To 'Nullify Explanation': Robert Frank * Ch. 8 1959: Making a Connection: Judith Malina and Jack Gelber * Ch. 9 1960: All About Me: Norman Mailer * Explosion, 1961 1969 * Ch.10 1961: Say What? : Lenny Bruce * Ch.11 1962: Pop Goes the Paradigm * Ch.12 1963: Picking His Nose at Tradition: Andy Warhol * Ch.13 1964: Naming the New: Susan Sontag * Ch.14 1965: 'How Does It Feel?': John Coltrane and Bob Dylan * Ch.15 1966: Living and Dying: Anne Sexton * Ch.16 1967: 'Utmost Freedom of Imagination': William Styron * Ch.17 1968: An 'Extreme Gesture': Gore Vidal * Cultural Commonplace, 1970 1974 * Ch.18 1969: 'Terribleness': Amiri Baraka * Ch.19 1970: 'I Just Love Freaks': Diane Arbus * Ch.20 1971: Vegas, Baby!: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Hunter Thompson * Ch.21 1972: Erectile Destruction: Samuel R. Delany and Thomas Pynchon * Ch.22 1973: Zipless Abandon: Erica Jong * Ch.23 1974: Crucified and Shot: Chris Burden * Conclusion: The Shock of the Old and New * Index
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