Chapter 3. Alienation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Part I. Toward the Last American Vanguard 1930-1955
5. Chapter 1. Introduction: The Avant Garde and the Culture of the Future 3
6. Chapter 2. The Communist Party, Modernism, and the Avant Garde 19
7. Part II. The American Avant Garde 1945-1960
8. Chapter 3. Alienation 41
9. Chapter 4. Innovation 59
10. Chapter 5. The Future 93
11. Part III. The End of the Avant Garde 1950-1965
12. Chapter 6. The Cold War, Cultural Radicalism, and the Defense of Capitalism 115
13. Chapter 7. Institutional Enthrallment 125
14. Chapter 8. Consumer Culture Commodification 139
15. Part IV. The End of the Avant Garde 1965-1995
16. Chapter 9. The Convention of Innovation and the End of the Future 171
17. Notes 187
18. Bibliographical Essay 215
19. Index 225