Morton Feldman : friendship and mourning in the New York avant-garde / Ryan Dohoney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dohoney, Ryan, author.

Contributor:

Michael K. Schaefer Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987.

Avant-garde (Music)--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Music).

Friendship.

Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Feldman, Morton.

Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987--Friends and associates.

New York School of poets and painters.

Friends and associates.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Moorman, and others. Arguing that friendship and mourning sustained the collective aesthetics of the New York School, Dohoney has written an emotional and intimate revision of New York modernism from the point of view of Feldman's agonistic community"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Spontaneity, Intimacy, and Friendship in the 1950s

2. "Elan vital... and how to fake it"

Intermission: The Necessary Other

3. The Elegiac Science

4. "We broke up because of style".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-207), discography (pages 207-208), filmography (page 208) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Michael K. Schaefer Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman

ISBN:

9781501345463

150134546X

9781501345456

1501345451

OCLC:

1252736612

Publisher Number:

99990147194