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  1. The Historical Context
    1. The postwar condition of alienation and anxiety
    2. Utopias and dystopias
  2. Existentialism and Freedom
    1. Sartre and humanistic existentialism
    2. Christian existentialism
    3. The existential hero: Sartre and Camus
    4. Theater of the absurd: Beckett
  3. The Quest for Meaning in Modern Poetry
    1. Eliot and Thomas
    2. Indian poetry: Tagore
    3. Islamic poetry: Iqbal
  4. Film at Mid-Century
    1. Neorealism
    2. Film noir
    3. Thriller
    4. The quest for meaning
  5. The Visual Arts at Mid-Century
    1. Painting
      1. Abstract expressionism: DeKooning, Kline, Pollock
      2. Color field painting: Rothko, Frankenthaler
      3. Regional realism: Hooper
    2. Sculpture
      1. Representations of alienation: Giacometti, Segal
      2. Constructed sculpture: Smith, Calder
    3. Architecture
      1. International style
      2. Subjective and personal alternatives: Saarinen and Wright
  6. Music and Dance at Mid-Century
    1. Cage and aleatory music
    2. Cunningham's radical choreography
    3. Balanchine's energetic approach to classical ballet





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