Word: belongingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Esthetics was not all that Dubuffet was out to destroy. He also wanted to jolt traditional ideas of time and space. If he painted a woman, she became all women, the archetype. Often she would have the appearance of a squooshy polyp who was not only a mass of flesh...
According to Goodman, society refuses to take seriously, and to recognize that he has real in a real world. This chap and others like are a "youth problem," says Goodman, and emphasis is on their "background conditions," which one can manipulate. Thus, "the aim is not to give human beings...
"We have to constantly devise new ways to bring about a challenge to these young folk, and to provide an outlet for their energies, and give them a sense of belonging."
From this zoo, Goodman selects the Beats as a pilot study in the uses of leisure. "Their rejection of the popular culture, Broadway theatre, status commodities, bespeaks robust mental health." On the other hand, Beat art, says Goodman, is parochial, hopelessly parochial. Discussing Beat words--"make it," "like," "man," "cool...
Beside the early-resigned there are the early-fatalistic, who put together gangs more readily than novels. Here Goodman offers perhaps his best insight: a view of a delinquent as powerlessly struggling for life within, not resigned from, an unacceptable world. We are reminded of Dostoevski. As Goodman puts it...