Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. This book also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works.
Table of ContentsExample 1: Introduction: Latter-Day Modernists; Part One: Out of the Cage; Example 2: Situation and Event: From The Pronouns to the Destinations of Sense; Example 3: Anarchy by Design: On Jackson Mac Low's Stanzas for Iris Lezak; Example 4: Pound's Cantos Lost and Found: Paragram and Authority in John Cage and Jackson Mac Low; Example 5: Merzing History: Kurt Schwitters, Jackson Mac Low, and the Aesthetics of Data Trash; Example 6: Transduced Objects and Spiritual Automata: Dimensions of Experience in David Tudor's Live Electronics; Part Two: Forays to the Dark Side; Example 7: Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics; Example 8: Fictional Truths: Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Between Image and Language; Example 9: Beckett's Political Technology: Expression, Confession, and Torture in the Later Drama; Part Three: Coda; Example 10: Didactic Drifts: One or More Conclusions Notes.
