Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
art, culture, and politics in Cold War America |
Author: |
GenterRobert, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Philadelphia |
Published: |
University of Pennsylvania Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 375 p.). |
Series: |
The arts and intellectual life in modern America |
Subject: |
Arts - Political aspects - United States - 20th century - |
Subject: |
Arts and society - History - United States - 20th century - |
Subject: |
Arts, American - 20th century - |
Subject: |
Modernism (Art) - United States - |
Subject: |
United States - Intellectual life - 20th century - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812200072/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9780812200072electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780812242645hbk. |
ISBN: |
0812242645hbk. |
Content Note: |
Pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War -- Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism -- Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman -- Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions -- Pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians -- A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills -- Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love -- Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns -- Rethinking the feminine within: thecultural politics of James Baldwin -- Pt. III. The challenge of late modernism -- Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison -- The legacy oflate modernism |