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The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde. Daniel Belgrad integrates such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain College, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the anti-nuclear movement. Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had one unifying theme: spontaneous improvisation. Through sensitive and skillful readings of the artistic works as well as deft explications of their social, political, and intellectual contexts, Belgrad reconstructs the mentality of this counterculture, recovers its particular vocabulary, and describes how the aesthetic of spontaneity contradicted the dominant consumer society of the 1950s. Focusing on the works of many key cultural figures such as Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Voulkos, Merce Cunningham, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and LeRoi Jones, Belgrad substantially revises our understanding of the most significant voices of the period and convincingly argues that the art of spontaneity constituted the cutting edge of postwar American thought.
Arts [American ] --- Arts americains --- Improvisatie in de kunst --- Improvisation dans l'art --- Improvisation in art --- Kunsten [Amerikaanse ] --- Arts, American --- Arts, Modern --- Arts américains --- Arts modernes --- Improvisation in art. --- Arts américains --- Arts [Modern ] --- 20th century --- United States --- Olson, Charles --- Criticism and interpretation --- Williams, William Carlos --- de Kooning, Willem --- Pollock, Jackson --- Avant-Garde (Aesthetics) --- Arts, American - 20th century
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Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a cornerstone of both practical and theoretical approaches to performance. The Improvisation Studies Reader draws together the works of key artists and thinkers from a range of disciplines, including theatre, music, literature, film, and dance. Divided by keywords into eight sections, this book bridges the gaps between these fields. The book includes case studies, exercises, graphic scores and poems in order to produce a teaching and research resource that identifies central themes in improvisation studies. Each section of the Reader is introduced by a newly commissioned think piece by a key figure in the field, which opens up research questions reflecting on the keyword in question. By placing key theoretical and classic texts in conversation with cutting-edge research and artists’ statements, this book answers the urgent questions facing improvising artists and theorists in the mediatized Twenty-First Century.
Didactics of the arts --- Music --- Theatrical science --- performance art --- improvisatie --- muziek --- 627 --- Instrumentale didactiek - Improvisatie, begeleiding --- 78.01 --- Muziek ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Muziek ; improvisatie
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