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Feast of excess : a cultural history of the New Sensibility

Cotkin, George, 1950- author

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\"In 1952, John Cage shocked audiences with 4'33\", his compositional ode to the ironic power of silence. From Cage's minimalism to Chris Burden's radical performance art two decades later (in one piece he had himself shot), the post-war American avant-garde shattered the divide between low and high art, between artist and audience. They changed the cultural landscape. [This book] is [a] ... portrait of 'The New Sensibility,' as it was named by Susan Sontag in 1965, [which] sought to push culture in extreme directions: either towards stark minimalism or gaudy maximalism\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Artists United States Biography. / Intellectuals United States Biography. / Extremists United States Biography. / Avant-garde (Aesthetics) United States History 20th century. / Art, American 20th century. / American literature 20th century History and criticism. / Performance art United States History 20th century. / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. / MUSIC / History & Criticism. / ART / American / General. / United States Intellectual life 20th century. / United States Civilization 1945-
• ISBN: 9780190218478, 0190218479

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E169.12.C645 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE