Title Greenwich Village 1963 : avant-garde performance and the effervescent body / Sally Banes

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 308 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Another space -- 2. The reinvention of community -- 3. Which culture? -- 4. Equality -- 5. Dreaming freedoms -- 6. The body is power -- 7. The anxiety of the absolute Summary The year was 1963 and from Birmingham to Washington, D.C., from Vietnam to the Kremlin to the Berlin Wall, the world was in the throes of political upheaval and historic change. But that same year, in New York's Greenwich Village, another kind of history and a different sort of politics were being made. This was a political history that had nothing to do with states or governments or armies--and had everything to do with art. And this is the story that Sally Banes tells, a year in the life of American culture, a year that would change American life and culture forever. It was in 1963, as Banes's book shows us, that the Sixties really began. A leading writer on cultural history, Banes draws a vibrant portrait of the artists and performers who gave the 1963 Village its exhilarating force, the avant-garde whose interweaving of public and private life, work and play, art and ordinary experience, began a wholesale reworking of the social and cultural fabric of America. Among these young artists were many who went on to become acknowledged masters in their fields, including Andy Warhol, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Yvonne Rainer, Lanford Wilson, Sam Shepard, Brian de Palma, Harvey Keitel, Kate Millet, and Claes Oldenburg. In live performance--Off-Off Broadway theater, Happenings, Fluxus, and dance--as well as in Pop Art and underground film, we see this generation of artists laying the groundwork for the explosion of the counterculture in the late 1960s and the emergence of postmodernism in the 1970s. Exploring themes of community, freedom, equality, the body, and the absolute, Banes shows us how the Sixties artists, though shaped by a culture of hope and optimism, helped to galvanize a culture of criticism and change. As 1963 came to define the Sixties, so this vivid account of the year will redefine a crucial generation in recent American history Analysis Arts New York (N.Y.) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-290) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York ART -- Performance. ART -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Arts, American Popular culture Kultur Avantgarde Kunstenaarskolonies. Avant-garde. Art -- Etats-Unis -- 20e siècle. Culture populaire -- 20e siècle. Arts, American -- New York. Arts, American -- 20th century -- New York. Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York. SUBJECT Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97020733 Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Greenwich Village New York- Greenwich Village New York (N.Y.) -- Quartier de Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Civilization. Form Electronic book LC no. 93018393 ISBN 9780822396901 0822396904

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