The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America
- ISBN-10
- 0226041905
- ISBN-13
- 9780226041902
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 343
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-10
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Daniel Belgrad
Description
In the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, "Belgrad contributes valuable insight and original scholarship to the study of 'projective' and 'spontaneous' aesthetics among cutting edge art movements of the American midcentury" (Tom Clark, author of "Jack Kerouac: A Biography"). 8 color plates. 28 halftones. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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- 1998-06-08
- 351 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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