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Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde
- Author: Dohoney, Ryan
Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde
- Author: Dohoney, Ryan
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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.
Contents
- 1. Introduction: Morton Feldman and the Historiography of Friendship
- 2. Spontaneity, Intimacy, and Friendship in Morton Feldman's Music of the 1950s
- 3. "Elan vital ... and how to fake it": Morton Feldman's Vitalist Community
- 4. The Necessary Other: Charlotte Moorman and Feldman's Projection 1
- 5. Mourning Coterie: Morton Feldman's Posthumous Collaborations with Frank O'Hara
- 6. Epilogue: "We Broke Up Over Style": Morton Feldman and Philip Guston c. 1970
