This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the
profound influence of Antonin Artaud Proposing an original
reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More
Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was
profoundly shaped by the work of the rebellious French poet and
dramatist Antonin Artaud (1896-1948). A generation of artists
mobilized Artaud's countercultural ideas to imagine new forms of
representation and to redefine the relationship between artist and
audience. The book shows how Artaud's radical writings inspired the
experimental theatrical work of John Cage, Rachel Rosenthal, and
Allan Kaprow; the attack on artistic and social conventions
launched by assemblage artists Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner; and
the feminist work of Carolee Schneemann and Nancy Spero. Lucy
Bradnock traces the dissemination of Artaud's writings in America
and demonstrates how his interest in political and cultural
disorder, the dangers of authority, and the unreliability of
representation found fertile ground in the context of the Cold War,
disillusionment with the ideals of Abstract Expressionism, and the
early years of identity politics.
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