%0 Book %1 Bel98 %A Belgrad, Daniel %D 1998 %K Belgrad art avantgarde beat_poetry book englisch experimental_dance expressionism improvisation kor-2008 postwar_america spontaneity year:1998 %T The culture of spontaneity: improvisation and the arts in postwar America %X "The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde. Daniel Belgrad integrates such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain College, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the anti-nuclear movement. Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had one unifying theme: spontaneous improvisation." "Through sensitive and skillful readings of the artistic works as well as deft explications of their social, political, and intellectual contexts, Belgrad reconstructs the mentality of this counterculture, recovers its particular vocabulary, and describes how the aesthetic of spontaneity contradicted the dominant consumer society of the 1950s. Focusing on the works of many key cultural figures such as Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Voulkos, Merce Cunningham, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and LeRoi Jones, Belgrad substantially revises our understanding of the most significant voices of the period and convincingly argues that the art of spontaneity constituted the cutting edge of postwar American thought."

@book{Bel98, abstract = {"The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde. Daniel Belgrad integrates such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain College, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the anti-nuclear movement. Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had one unifying theme: spontaneous improvisation." "Through sensitive and skillful readings of the artistic works as well as deft explications of their social, political, and intellectual contexts, Belgrad reconstructs the mentality of this counterculture, recovers its particular vocabulary, and describes how the aesthetic of spontaneity contradicted the dominant consumer society of the 1950s. Focusing on the works of many key cultural figures such as Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Voulkos, Merce Cunningham, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and LeRoi Jones, Belgrad substantially revises our understanding of the most significant voices of the period and convincingly argues that the art of spontaneity constituted the cutting edge of postwar American thought."}, added-at = {2008-09-03T15:58:46.000+0200}, author = {Belgrad, Daniel}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ae5a58c6f5c80fc5468f632f776fe55f/kregulski}, description = {Fernleihe, in NRW vorhanden}, interhash = {847356da86d068f570f117911faea743}, intrahash = {ae5a58c6f5c80fc5468f632f776fe55f}, keywords = {Belgrad art avantgarde beat_poetry book englisch experimental_dance expressionism improvisation kor-2008 postwar_america spontaneity year:1998}, note = {Content: Pt. 1. The Collective Unconscious -- 1. The Emergence of an Avant-Garde -- 2. The Avant-Garde and the American Indian -- 3. Ideogram -- Pt. 2. The Energy Field -- 4. Subjectivity, Existentialism, and Plastic Dialogue -- 5. Subjectivity in the Energy Field: The Influence of Alfred North Whitehead -- 6. Gestalt -- 7. The Body in Plastic Dialogue: Dance and Ceramics -- Pt. 3. Spontaneous Bop Prosody -- 8. Bebop -- 9. The Beats -- 10. Battling the Social Neurosis. Conclusion Into the Sixties ISBN 0226041883 }, timestamp = {2008-09-03T15:58:46.000+0200}, title = {The culture of spontaneity: improvisation and the arts in postwar America}, year = 1998 }