After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant Garde
Description
After the Wake provides the reader with a critical guide to the development of experimental literature, music, and paining since the Second World War. A large number of artists central to this new tradition-among them Boulez, Stockhausen, Pollock, Stella, Robbe-Grillet, and Claude Simon-are analyzed, particularly in relation to the dialectic Butler finds in this period, between theoretically over-determined types of artistic organization and those based upon irrationalism or chance. Particular attention is paid to the developments of serial music, abstract painting, and the use of discontin...
ISBN(s)
0198157665, 9780198157663
