LEADER 05343oam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910828559403321 005 20240418022610.0 010 $a1-283-89020-8 010 $a0-8122-0007-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200072 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046780 035 $a(OCoLC)794700601 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576026 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605938 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11345345 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605938 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580208 035 $a(PQKB)10956247 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8261 035 $a(DE-B1597)449058 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954741 035 $a(OCoLC)979723897 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200072 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441586 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576026 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420270 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441586 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046780 100 $a20100308d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLate modernism $eart, culture, and politics in Cold War America /$fRobert Genter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (384 pages) 225 1 $aThe arts and intellectual life in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4264-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism --$tPart I. High Modernism in America Self and Society in the Early Cold War --$tChapter One Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism --$tChapter Two Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The Sociological Challenge of David Riesman --$tChapter Three Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality: Norman Brown's Freudian Revisions --$tPart II. The Revolt of Romantic Modernism Beatniks, Action Painters, and Reichians --$tChapter Four A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills --$tChapter Five Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin's Gift of Love --$tChapter Six Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns --$tChapter Seven Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James Baldwin --$tPart III. The Challenge of Late Modernism --$tChapter Eight Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison --$tConclusion The Legacy of Late Modernism --$tNOTES --$tINDEX --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism-Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky-and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to pop art, and the barren formalism associated with the so-called high modernists wilted before the hothouse cultural brew of the 1960's. According to conventional thinking, it was around this time that postmodernism with its characteristic skepticism and relativism was born. In Late Modernism, historian Robert Genter remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Dispensing with traditional narratives that present this moment as marking the exhaustion of modernism, Genter argues instead that the 1950's were the apogee of the movement, as American practitioners-abstract expressionists, Beat poets, formalist critics, color-field painters, and critical theorists, among others-debated the relationship between form and content, tradition and innovation, aesthetics and politics. In this compelling work of intellectual and cultural history Genter presents an invigorated tradition of late modernism, centered on the work of Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, Jasper Johns, Norman Brown, and James Baldwin, a tradition that overcame the conservative and reactionary politics of competing modernist practitioners and paved the way for the postmodern turn of the 1960's. 410 0$aArts and intellectual life in modern America. 606 $aModernism (Art)$zUnited States 606 $aArts, American$y20th century 606 $aArts and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArts$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aModernism (Art) 615 0$aArts, American 615 0$aArts and society$xHistory 615 0$aArts$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a700/.41120973 686 $aLO 94030$2rvk 700 $aGenter$b Robert$01719452 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828559403321 996 $aLate modernism$94117293 997 $aUNINA