{"product_id":"breathless-days-19591960-9780822360230","title":"Breathless Days 19591960","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProviding heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent. . . . \u003ci\u003eBreathless Days\u003c\/i\u003e should be considered essential reading for those seeking a deeper understanding of a fascinating range of works created in a turbulent period of twentieth-century history.\" -- Anthony White * RACAR *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brien  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinéma\u003c\/i\u003e Interview \/ Jean-Luc Godard  22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cheek to Cheek in Paris and New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Marcel Duchamp: The Signature Machine—Identity, Authority, Dispossession \/ Hadrien Laroche  31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Young and the Old \/ Richard Leeman  60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Redefining the Boundaries of Culture: The French Experience of Jazz \/ Ludovic Tournès  82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Critical Season for Alan Katz \/ Éric de Chassey  99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Cacodylic Mind: Francis Picabia and the Neo-Avant-Garde, 1953–1963 \/ Tom McDonough  112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Violence, Machines, and Bodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Paradox of Time: Nouveau Réalisme's Curious \"Archaeology of the Present\" \/ Jill Carrick  129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. To Be an \"Exemplary\" Machine: Tinguely's \u003ci\u003eHomage to New York\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Mari Dumett  152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e and the Neighbor \/ Clint Burnbaum  177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Bodybuilding or Bodycrushing? From Art to Theater: From Bodies to Corpses, a Rhizomatic Meditation on the Contemporary West \/ Regis Michel  191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Time Is Longer Than Any Distance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Action Writing\/Action Reading \/ Luc Lang  205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. From the Genius in the Mountain to the Party in the Dark: Art, Cinema, and Cultural Politics at the Beginning of the Cuban Revolution \/ Antonio Eligio (Tonel)  211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Disorder and Progress in Brazilian Visual Culture, 1959 \/ Aleca Le Blanc  234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. That Tingling Sensation: 1959 and William Castle's \u003ci\u003eThe Tingler\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Kjetil Radje  255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. Atopic Atomic: Picro Manzoni's Space-Age Subtext and the \"Ins and Outs\" of the Modern Intellectual \/ Carla Benzan  275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography  313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  323","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406092018007,"sku":"9780822360230","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360230.jpg?v=1730494498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/breathless-days-19591960-9780822360230","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}