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Taking 1959-1960 as a pivotal cultural and political moment, the contributors to Breathless Days reframe postwar Western art history, examining the aesthetic and ideological alliances and tensions in art throughout Western Europe and the Americas. The collection provides a heterogeneous account of the intersections of the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba. This reveals the knotty and multilayered connections among these divergent artistic milieus. Whether discussing Duchamp's With My Tongue in My Cheek, Brazilian abstraction, postrevolutionary Cuban art, Jean Tinguely's self-destroying machines, or Burroughs's Naked Lunch, the contributors show this brief period to be a key to the cultural and political development of Western Europe and the Americas during the Cold War.
Contributors. Carla Benzan, Clint Burnham, Jill Carrick, Eric de Chassey, Mari Dumett, Serge Guilbaut, Luc Lang, Hadrien Laroche, Aleca Le Blanc, Richard Leeman, Tom McDonough, Regis Michel, John O'Brian, Kjetil Rodje, Ludovic Tournès, Antonio Eligio (Tonel)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brien 1
1. Cahiers du Cinéma Interview / Jean-Luc Godard 22
Part I. Cheek to Cheek in Paris and New York
2. Marcel Duchamp: The Signature Machine—Identity, Authority, Dispossession / Hadrien Laroche 31
3. The Young and the Old / Richard Leeman 60
4. Redefining the Boundaries of Culture: The French Experience of Jazz / Ludovic Tournès 82
5. A Critical Season for Alan Katz / Éric de Chassey 99
6. The Cacodylic Mind: Francis Picabia and the Neo-Avant-Garde, 1953–1963 / Tom McDonough 112
Part II. Violence, Machines, and Bodies
7. The Paradox of Time: Nouveau Réalisme's Curious "Archaeology of the Present" / Jill Carrick 129
8. To Be an "Exemplary" Machine: Tinguely's Homage to New York / Mari Dumett 152
9. Naked Lunch and the Neighbor / Clint Burnbaum 177
10. Bodybuilding or Bodycrushing? From Art to Theater: From Bodies to Corpses, a Rhizomatic Meditation on the Contemporary West / Regis Michel 191
Part III. Time Is Longer Than Any Distance
11. Action Writing/Action Reading / Luc Lang 205
12. From the Genius in the Mountain to the Party in the Dark: Art, Cinema, and Cultural Politics at the Beginning of the Cuban Revolution / Antonio Eligio (Tonel) 211
13. Disorder and Progress in Brazilian Visual Culture, 1959 / Aleca Le Blanc 234
14. That Tingling Sensation: 1959 and William Castle's The Tingler / Kjetil Radje 255
15. Atopic Atomic: Picro Manzoni's Space-Age Subtext and the "Ins and Outs" of the Modern Intellectual / Carla Benzan 275
Selected Bibliography 313
Contributors 319
Index 323
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Serge Guilbaut is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of British Columbia and the author and editor of several books, including How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War.
John O'Brian is Professor of Art History and Faculty Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia and the author and editor of several books, most recently, Camera Atomica.
Zusammenfassung
Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas.
