Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility by George Cotkin

Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility

George Cotkin

448 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
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In 1952, John Cage shocked audiences with 4'33," his compositional ode to the ironic power of silence. From Cage's minimalism to Chris Burden's radical performance art two decades later (in one piece he had himself shot), the post-war American ava...

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