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Book SynopsisProviding 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.
Trade Review"Excellent. . . .
Breathless Days 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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction / Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brien 1
1.
Cahiers du Cinéma Interview / Jean-Luc Godard 22
Part I. Cheek to Cheek in Paris and New York
2. Marcel Duchamp: The Signature Machine—Identity, Authority, Dispossession / Hadrien Laroche 31
3. The Young and the Old / Richard Leeman 60
4. Redefining the Boundaries of Culture: The French Experience of Jazz / Ludovic Tournès 82
5. A Critical Season for Alan Katz / Éric de Chassey 99
6. The Cacodylic Mind: Francis Picabia and the Neo-Avant-Garde, 1953–1963 / Tom McDonough 112
Part II. Violence, Machines, and Bodies
7. The Paradox of Time: Nouveau Réalisme's Curious "Archaeology of the Present" / Jill Carrick 129
8. To Be an "Exemplary" Machine: Tinguely's
Homage to New York / Mari Dumett 152
9.
Naked Lunch and the Neighbor / Clint Burnbaum 177
10. Bodybuilding or Bodycrushing? From Art to Theater: From Bodies to Corpses, a Rhizomatic Meditation on the Contemporary West / Regis Michel 191
Part III. Time Is Longer Than Any Distance
11. Action Writing/Action Reading / Luc Lang 205
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
13. Disorder and Progress in Brazilian Visual Culture, 1959 / Aleca Le Blanc 234
14. That Tingling Sensation: 1959 and William Castle's
The Tingler / Kjetil Radje 255
15. Atopic Atomic: Picro Manzoni's Space-Age Subtext and the "Ins and Outs" of the Modern Intellectual / Carla Benzan 275
Selected Bibliography 313
Contributors 319
Index 323
