The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America

by Daniel Belgrad

Book Overview

The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, integrating 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 antinuclear movement. Daniel Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had one unifying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226041905
• ISBN13: 9780226041902
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"