Late modernism : art, culture, and politics in Cold War America / Robert Genter.
By: Genter, Robert.
Material type: BookSeries: Arts and intellectual life in modern America: Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010Description: viii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Modernism (Art) -- United States | Arts, American -- 20th century | Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 700/.41120973Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary | 700.41 Gen 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available |
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.
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