The story of a new style of art-and a new way of life-in postwar
America: confessionalism. What do midcentury "confessional" poets
have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an
inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a
sense that this book can never be finished. Christopher Grobe
argues that, in postwar America, artists like these forged a new
way of being in the world. Identity became a kind of work-always
ongoing, never complete-to be performed on the public stage. The
Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of
the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like
realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but
soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s,
performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the
'90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere
confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of
the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists
performed-with, around, and against the text of their lives. A
blend of cultural history, literary criticism, and performance
theory, The Art of Confession explores iconic works of art and
draws surprising connections among artists who may seem far apart,
but who were influenced directly by one another. Studying
extraordinary art alongside ordinary experiences of self-betrayal
and -revelation, Christopher Grobe argues that a tradition of
"confessional performance" unites poets with comedians, performance
artists with social media users, reality TV stars with actors-and
all of them with us. There is art, this book shows, in our most
artless acts.
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