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A history of the postwar avant-garde in America. The book integrates diverse moments in American culture, such as bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, beat poetry, Jungian psychology and Zen Buddhism and argues that all of these movements have a unifying theme: spontaneous improvization.

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Part 1 The collective unconscious: the emergence of an avant-garde; the avant-garde and the American Indian; ideogram. Part 2 The energy field: subjectivity, existentialism and plastic dialogue; subjectivity in the energy field - the influence of Alfred North Whitehead; gestalt; the body in plastic; dialogue - dance and ceramics. Part 3 Spontaneous bop prosody: bebop; the beats; battling the social neurosis; conclusion - into the Sixties.

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/27/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226041902, 978-0226041902
      ISBN10: 0226041905
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      Book Synopsis
      A history of the postwar avant-garde in America. The book integrates diverse moments in American culture, such as bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, beat poetry, Jungian psychology and Zen Buddhism and argues that all of these movements have a unifying theme: spontaneous improvization.

      Table of Contents
      Part 1 The collective unconscious: the emergence of an avant-garde; the avant-garde and the American Indian; ideogram. Part 2 The energy field: subjectivity, existentialism and plastic dialogue; subjectivity in the energy field - the influence of Alfred North Whitehead; gestalt; the body in plastic; dialogue - dance and ceramics. Part 3 Spontaneous bop prosody: bebop; the beats; battling the social neurosis; conclusion - into the Sixties.

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