Late Modernism. Robert Genter

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Genter, Robert.

      Late modernism : art, culture, and politics in Cold War America / Robert Genter.

      p. cm. — (The arts and intellectual life in modern America)

      Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8122-4264-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

      1. Modernism (Art) —United States. 2. Arts, American—20th century. 3. Arts and society—United States—History—20th century. 4. Arts—Political aspects—United States—History—20th century. 5. United States—Intellectual life—20th century. I. Title.

      All texts by Ralph Ellison

      © The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust

       To my father and to the memory of my mother

      CONTENTS

       Introduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism

       PART I High Modernism in America: Self and Society in the Early Cold War

       One. Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism

       Two. Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The Sociological Challenge of David Riesman

       Three. Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality: Norman Brown’s Freudian Revisions

       PART II The Revolt of Romantic Modernism: Beatniks, Action Painters, and Reichians

       Four. A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills

       Five. Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin’s Gift of Love

       Six. Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns

       Seven. Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James Baldwin

       PART III The Challenge of Late Modernism

       Eight. Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison

       Conclusion. The Legacy of Late Modernism

       Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      INTRODUCTION

      A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism

      IN APRIL 1949, the San Francisco Art Association held a three-day “Western Round Table on Modern Art,” bringing together an eclectic group of artists, critics, and curators to discuss the state of modernism in America. Held at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the round table was designed “to bring a representation of the best informed opinion of the time to bear on questions about art today,” with the goal of achieving progress “in the exposure of hidden СКАЧАТЬ