Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility By George Cotkin
| #900056 in Books | Oxford University Press | 2016-01-21 | 2016-01-21 | Original language: English | PDF # 1 | 6.50 x 1.40 x 9.20l, .0 | File type: PDF | 448 pages | File size: 54.Mb
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Most Helpful Written in a lively and accessible style Feast of Excess traces in brief chapters the history of the New Sensibility in America The book opens with John Cage in 1952 experimenting with an excess of minimalism in his musical piece of silence 4 33 and in his chaotic maximalist work Theater Piece No 1 Feast concludes in 1974 with performance artist Chris Burden who among other things had himself shot in the arm crucified to a VW bug and spent days scrunched up With great verve George Cotkin s Feast of Excess demonstrates beyond any doubt that the in your face culture of provocation we rightly associate with the 1960s had much deeper roots and a long and varied life Ranging impressively through all the arts nicel
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