Feast of excess: a cultural history of the New Sensibility

Introduction: The New Sensibility

Prelude: A New Year : Judith Malina

[I] Emergence, 1952-1960

1952: Sounds of Silence : John Cage

1953: Erasure and Addition : Robert Rauschenberg

1954: The Wild One : Marlon Brando

1955: Ever Mysterious : Patricia Highsmith

1956: Howling in the Wilderness : Allen Ginsberg

1957: "Great Balls of Fire" : Jerry Lee Lewis

1958: To "Nullify Explanation" : Robert Frank

1959: Making a Connection : Judith Malina and Jack Gelber

1960: All About Me : Norman Mailer

[II] Explosion, 1961-1969

1961: Say What? : Lenny Bruce

1962: Pop Goes the Paradigm

1963: Picking His Nose at Tradition : Andy Warhol

1964: Naming the New : Susan Sontag

1965: "How Does It Feel?" : John Coltrane and Bob Dylan

1966: Living and Dying : Anne Sexton

1967: "Utmost Freedom of Imagination" : William Styron

1968: An "Extreme Gesture" : Gore Vidal

[III] Cultural Commonplace, 1970-1974

1969: "Terribleness" : Amiri Baraka

1970: "I Just Love Freaks" : Diane Arbus

1971: Vegas, Baby! : Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Hunter Thompson

1972: Erectile Destruction : Samuel R. Delany and Thomas Pynchon

1973: Zipless Abandon : Erica Jong

1974: Crucified and Shot : Chris Burden

Conclusion: The Shock of the Old...and New.