Feast of Excess
Download or Read eBook Feast of Excess PDF written by George Cotkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : George Cotkin |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780190218478 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0190218479 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Feast of Excess by : George Cotkin
Book excerpt: Feast of Excess is an engaging and accessible portrait of "The New Sensibility," as it was named by Susan Sontag in 1965. The New Sensibility sought to push culture in extreme directions: either towards stark minimalism or gaudy maximalism. Through vignette profiles of prominent figures-John Cage, Patricia Highsmith, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Anne Sexton, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Erica Jong, and Thomas Pynchon, to name a few-George Cotkin presents their bold, headline-grabbing performances and places them within the historical moment.
