Breathless Days, 1959-1960

Serge Guilbaut is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of British Columbia and the author and editor of several books, including How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War. John O'Brian is Professor of Art History and Faculty Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia and the author and editor of several books, most recently, Camera Atomica.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction / Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brien  11. Cahiers du CinÉma Interview / Jean-Luc Godard  22Part I. Cheek to Cheek in Paris and New York2. Marcel Duchamp: The Signature Machine-Identity, Authority, Dispossession / Hadrien Laroche  313. The Young and the Old / Richard Leeman  604. Redefining the Boundaries of Culture: The French Experience of Jazz / Ludovic TournÈs  825. A Critical Season for Alan Katz / Éric de Chassey  996. The Cacodylic Mind: Francis Picabia and the Neo-Avant-Garde, 1953–1963 / Tom McDonough  112Part II. Violence, Machines, and Bodies7. The Paradox of Time: Nouveau RÉalisme's Curious "Archaeology of the Present" / Jill Carrick  1298. To Be an "Exemplary" Machine: Tinguely's Homage to New York / Mari Dumett  1529. Naked Lunch and the Neighbor / Clint Burnbaum  17710. Bodybuilding or Bodycrushing? From Art to Theater: From Bodies to Corpses, a Rhizomatic Meditation on the Contemporary West / Regis Michel  191Part III. Time Is Longer Than Any Distance11. Action Writing/Action Reading / Luc Lang  20512. From the Genius in the Mountain to the Party in the Dark: Art, Cinema, and Cultural Politics at the Beginning of the Cuban Revolution / Antonio Eligio (Tonel)  21113. Disorder and Progress in Brazilian Visual Culture, 1959 / Aleca Le Blanc  23414. That Tingling Sensation: 1959 and William Castle's The Tingler / Kjetil Radje  25515. Atopic Atomic: Picro Manzoni's Space-Age Subtext and the "Ins and Outs" of the Modern Intellectual / Carla Benzan  275Selected Bibliography  313Contributors  319Index  323

"Excellent. . . . Breathless Days should be considered essential reading for those seeking a deeper understanding of a fascinating range of works created in a turbulent period of twentieth-century history." - Anthony White (RACAR)