Art Rebels (eBook)

Race, Class, and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese

Paul Lopes (Autor)

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2019
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18981-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of avant-garde and independent art. Across the arts, artists rebelled against traditional conventions, embracing a commitment to creative autonomy and personal vision never before witnessed in the United States. Paul Lopes calls this the Heroic Age of American Art, and identifies two artists-Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese-as two of its leading icons.In this compelling book, Lopes tells the story of how a pair of talented and outspoken art rebels defied prevailing conventions to elevate American jazz and film to unimagined critical heights. During the Heroic Age of American Art-where creative independence and the unrelenting pressures of success were constantly at odds-Davis and Scorsese became influential figures with such modern classics as Kind of Blue and Raging Bull. Their careers also reflected the conflicting ideals of, and contentious debates concerning, avant-garde and independent art during this period. In examining their art and public stories, Lopes also shows how their rebellions as artists were intimately linked to their racial and ethnic identities and how both artists adopted hypermasculine ideologies that exposed the problematic intersection of gender with their racial and ethnic identities as iconic art rebels.Art Rebels is the essential account of a new breed of artists who left an indelible mark on American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. It is an unforgettable portrait of two iconic artists who exemplified the complex interplay of the quest for artistic autonomy and the expression of social identity during the Heroic Age of American Art.

Autor

Paul Lopes is associate professor of sociology at Colgate University. He is the author of Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book and The Rise of a Jazz Art World.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abbey Lincoln • African-American music • African Americans • Alex Haley • Alfred Hitchcock • American Life • Amiri Baraka • art movement • art world • Barry Ulanov • Biography • black people • Blaxploitation • Calligraphy • Cannonball Adderley • Career • Carlito's Way • cecil taylor • Chuck Berry • Cinema of the United States • culture industry • Disgust • Dizzy Gillespie • Doo-Bop • Eminem • enfant terrible • exploitation film • feature film • film criticism • film industry • filmmaking • Francis Ford Coppola • Gangs of New York • Gavin Smith (film studio executive) • Gender identity • Genre • goodfellas • Grammy Award • Hegemonic masculinity • Herbie Hancock • High Art • High Culture • Hip Hop • Hugh Hefner • hypermasculinity • Ideology • Intersectionality • Italian Americans • James Reese Europe • Jazz • Jazz Club • Jimi Hendrix • John Coltrane • Leonard Feather • Lou Reed • Major film studio • Marlon Brando • Martin Scorsese • Masculinity • Max Roach • Melody Maker • Miles Davis • misogyny • Music Industry • Music Is • nat hentoff • New Hollywood • newspaper • Newsweek • Oliver Stone • Paul Desmond • Pierre Bourdieu • Popular Art • popular culture • popular music • Project • Race (human categorization) • Racism • record producer • Sexism • Social distance • Sociology • Songwriter • Spike Lee • Stan Brakhage • Stevie Wonder • Storytelling • Struggle (TV series) • Taxi Driver • Thelonious Monk • The New Jim Crow • The New York Times • The Other Hand • The Telling • The Various • Tobias Frere-Jones • White Jazz • white privilege • white supremacy • Wynton Marsalis
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18981-1 / 0691189811
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18981-9 / 9780691189819