The parameters of postmodernism / / Nicholas Zurbrugg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963263303321
• Autore: Zurbrugg Nicholas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c1993
• ISBN: 0-8093-1887-3; 0-203-20517-0; 1-134-84592-8; 1-134-84591-X; 0-203-28817-3; 1-280-03237-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.04
• Soggetti: Postmodernism (Literature); Postmodernism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Anti-Art or Ante-Art?; Monumental Art or Submonumental Art?; Eagleton and the Apocalyptic Fallacy; Introducing the B-Effect; Introducing the C-Effect; Deploring/Exploring Hyperspace: Jameson and Cage; Stupefaction or Enlivenment?; Benjamin and the Loss of Aura; Barthes, Belsey, and the Death of the Author; Brger and the Death of the Avant-Garde; Bonito-Oliva, Baudrillard, and the Collapse of the New; Beckett, Brecht, and the Attractions of Antinarrative; Beckett's Poetics of Failure/Brecht's Poetics of Interrogation; Beckett, Brecht, and the Groan of the Text Eagleton, Jameson, and Dehistoricized Culture; Cage, Kostelanetz, and Value Judgments; Jameson, Rauschenberg, and Premature Exasperation; Cage, Rauschenberg, and Ryman; Cage and Consumption; Collective Narrative and the Struggle with Simulacra; Depersonalized Culture or Repersonalized Culture?; Cage and the Antilogic of the Text; Beckett, Cage, and Nothing; Beckett, Cage, and Programmatic Composition; Purposeful Purposelessness or Nothing to Be Done?; Jameson, Bourdieu, and the Destruction of Art and Taste; Chion, Cage, and New ; Aesthetic Rationales; Postmodernism's Purist Aesthetic Postmodernism's Hybrid Aesthetic; Feldman, Crazy Contradiction, and the Conceptual, Artistic Life; Pure ~H~; Habermas and Communicative Rationality; Beuys, Adorno, and the Silence of Marcel Duchamp; Beuys, Cage, Buchloh, and the B-B-Effect; Jappe, Jameson, and the Concept of Utopia; Bense, Concrete Poetry, and the Dwindling of the Poetic Element; Chopin, Human Vitality, and Technological Civilization; Conz and the New Saints of the Avant-Garde; A Problem in Design: Lax and Mann; Postmodernism at Two Speeds: Hassan, Janco, and Seuphor; Rainer, Robbe-Grillet, Reich, and the Turn to Interobjectivity Robbe-Grillet and the Re-turn to the Subjective Type of Writing; Rainer and the Re-turn to Identity; Reich and the Re-turn to Historical Realities; Multimedia Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gaburo and Ashley; Monk and the Re-turn to Recurrence; Umberto Eco and the Re-turn to the Middle Ages; Grass and the Destruction of Mankind; Grass, Mann, and the Re-turn to Forbidden Literature; Ernst, Carrington, and the Re-turn of Surrealism; Carrington, Cage, Beuys, and the Poetics of Resistance; Cage, Carrington, Barthes, Burroughs, Bense: From Artha to Moksha Cage, Wolf, and the Re-turn to the Third Alternative; Wolf, Mann, and the Authority of Literary Genres; Miller, Beuys, and the Elevation of the Berlin Wall; Miller, Brecht, and the Petrification of Hope; Miller, Wilson, and the Re-turn to the Classics; Huyssen and the Endgame of the Avant-Garde; Huyssen, Popper, and the Electrification of the Avant-Garde; Buuel, Breton, Benjamin, Baudrillard, and the Myths of Mechanical Depersonalization; DeLillo, Miller, Lyotard, Kroker, and the Panic Sensibility; Ballard, The Kindness of Women, and Catharsis
• Sommario/riassunto: This ground-breaking work draws upon the authors interviews with leading postmodern artists, including Baudrillard, Beckett, Cage and Glass. It offers a challenging and positive view of postmodern culture.