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Contextual Practice - Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,637
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Contextual Practice - Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art (Hardcover, New): Stephen Fredman

Contextual Practice - Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art (Hardcover, New)

Stephen Fredman

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"Some of the most innovative works of poetry and art in the postwar period (1945-1970) engaged in a 'contextual practice' - both a way of making art and a new relationship between art and life. A response to the devastating experiences of the Depression and World War II, contextual practice involved drawing together visual and verbal fragments from daily life in order to reveal secret meanings and to insist on the regenerative potential of the everyday. Poets and artists particularly based their work on the body and its erotic energies, creating an art of daily life that reveled in sexual display and drug experimentation, espoused an anarchist politics and communal sociality, and encouraged mystical and shamanistic excursions. Contextual practice informed all branches of the New American poetry; the work of the Beats; happenings, events, and dance theater; the underground film movement; and, currents of assemblage, collage, junk art, and pop art. Fredman illuminates the theoretical and practical stakes involved and takes us back to the first stirrings of a countercultural ethos that was to have a profound effect on society at large. "

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2010
First published: 2010
Authors: Stephen Fredman
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages: 240
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-6358-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
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LSN: 0-8047-6358-5
Barcode: 9780804763585

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