The art of confession

By Christophár Grobe

Subjects: Confession stories, Selbstdarstellung, Lyrik, Arts, united states, Reality-TV, Confession in art, Spoken word poetry, Self-presentation in literature, Confession, Arts, Performance, Performance art, Poetry and the arts, Confession in literature, Literatur, Self-presentation in mass media, Social aspects, History, Reality television programs, Beichte

Description: "The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --