Author : Philip Auslander
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The New York School Poets as Playwrights by : Philip Auslander
Download or read book The New York School Poets as Playwrights written by Philip Auslander and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York School Poets as Playwrights is a critical introduction to a little-known body of drama by four preeminent American poets. In this interdisciplinary study, Philip Auslander draws on the methods of art history, theatre history, and literary criticism. He argues that the plays reflect the transition that occurred within the New York School in the 1950s and 1960s, when the dominant Abstract Expressionist sensibility was being undermined by the Pop Art sensibility. He goes on to show that the plays anticipated the tone of American art and theatre of later decades, including the Off-Off-Broadway movement of the 1960s, and postmodernism.