Genter, Robert.
Late modernism : art, culture, and politics in Cold War America / Robert Genter. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. - viii, 375 p. ; 24 cm. - The arts and intellectual life in modern America . - Arts and intellectual life in modern America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War -- Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism -- Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman -- Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions -- Pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians -- A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills -- Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love -- Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns -- Rethinking the feminine within: the cultural politics of James Baldwin -- Pt. III. The challenge of late modernism -- Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison -- The legacy of late modernism.
9780812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010008114
GBB093706 bnb
015619724 Uk
Modernism (Art)--United States.
Arts, American--20th century.
Arts and society--History--United States--20th century.
Arts--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
NX504 / .G46 2010
700/.41120973
Late modernism : art, culture, and politics in Cold War America / Robert Genter. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. - viii, 375 p. ; 24 cm. - The arts and intellectual life in modern America . - Arts and intellectual life in modern America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War -- Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism -- Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman -- Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions -- Pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians -- A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills -- Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love -- Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns -- Rethinking the feminine within: the cultural politics of James Baldwin -- Pt. III. The challenge of late modernism -- Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison -- The legacy of late modernism.
9780812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010008114
GBB093706 bnb
015619724 Uk
Modernism (Art)--United States.
Arts, American--20th century.
Arts and society--History--United States--20th century.
Arts--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
NX504 / .G46 2010
700/.41120973