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Aaron, Daniel, xi, xiv, xv, xvi Adorno, Theodor, xix, 69 Advice columns, 69, 71-87; hegemonic strategies of, 71-73 Agee, James, 67 Agrarianism, 9, 10, 52 Alger, Horatio, 94-99, 101, 106, 108, 110-11, 167n13, 171n42 "American Chauve Souris" (West), 88-89, 94, 101, 165nl American Dream, American Way, Gospel of Success, 10, 94, 96-97, 98, 101 American Humor (Rourke), 90 American Writers' Congress, xii Anger, Kenneth, 105 Anti-aesthetic, xvii, xix, 42, 148n4 Antimodernism, 10, 90 Anti-Nazi League: West's involvement in, xii Anti-Semitism, 104 Apocalypse, 34-35, 62, 128, 132, 135 Appel, Benjamin, 67 Appollinaire, Guillaume, 16, 145n7 Aragon, Louis, xviii, 17, 18, 22, 146n14 Arensberg Circle, xviii Armory Show, xviii Arnold, Matthew, 89 Arnold, Thurman,S Arp, Jean, 19 Asch, Nathan, 55, 56 Avante-garde, xviii-xix, 64-65, 148n4; accidentalism as a strategy of, 15; and its critique of art, xviii-xix; and the substitution of artifice for nature, 113-118; and the problem of authority, 26-27, 41-43; automatism as a strategy of, 18-20, 101; its relation to and rebellion Index from bourgeoisie, 21, 24-29, 77; and games of confidence, 23, 42; and the collapse of critical distance, 25, 27; death of, xx; deflation as a strategy of, 21, 101; in The Dream Life of Balsa Snell, 28-43; excrementalism as a strategy of, xix, 28-43; and experimentalism, 65; exquisite corpses as a motif in, xix, 2326 , 99-101; in "The Fake," 23-26; hallucination as a strategy of, 21, 147n26; inversion as a strategy of, 42, 73; and kitsch, xix; madness as a strategy of, 26, 36; in relation to modernism, 148n4; plagiarism as a strategy of, 96, 104; readymade as a strategy of, xix, 20, 42, 114, 116; and the problem of representation , 23-26; and the cultivation of scandal , 24-26, 77; status in United States, xviii; West's affinities with, xix. See Also Dada; Surrealism Bakhtin, Mikhail, 38-39, 42, 71, 114 Barnard, Rita, xi, xiv, 143n2l, 174n20, 174n23 Barnes, Djuna, xviii Barthes, Roland, 93 "Base ~,faterialism and Gnosticism" (Bataille),34 Bataille, Georges, 33-37, 76, 128-30, 150n20 Baudelaire, Charles, 36, 119 Baudrillard, Jean, 70-71, 73, 76, 119, 130, 133-34 Benjamin, Walter, xi, 70, 71, 122 Berlin, [rving, 76 "Big Toe, The" (Bataille), 33 175 176 Blake, William, 63 Bloom, Harold, xi, 37 BIume, Peter, xviii Boorstin, Daniel, 142n8 Bottom Dogs (Dahlberg), 50 Brecht, Bertolt, 70 Breton, Andre, 15-18, 34, 146n14, 152n35 Brinkley, Alan, 5, 143n14 Broadway, 69, 88, 91-92 Brokaw, Tom, 132 Brooks, Van Wyck, 90 Brown, Norman 0.,126 Buchman, Sidney, 107-11, 170n32, 170n41 Buck, Pearl S., 54 Burke, Kenneth, 49-50, 115, 161n3 "Burn the Cities" (West), 18 Caldwell, Erskine, 50, 55 Camp, 116 Cantor, Eddie, 105 Capitalism, xvi-xvii, 7, 9-10, 22, 94, 96, 128-29, 133; American Writers' Congress manifesto on, xii; and consumption , 79, 82-83, 124-26, 130, 133-34; and the corrosive power of, 100; and the dissolution of reality, xvii, 54; and the unintelligibility of finance, 7; and the erasure of folk culture, 90-91; and the "Horatio Alger story," 94-98; the pastoral critique of, 8-11 Capra, Frank, 9, 107, 112, 170n31 Carmer, Carl, 88 Case, Eugene, 103, 104 Castration, 93, 127 Celeste Ugolin (Dessaignes), 16 Censorship, 79-87 Chase, Stuart, 89, 90 Chekhov, Anton, 25 Christianity, 28, 29, 30, 68, 74, 78-79, 85, 95 Citizen Kane (film), 77 Class, xvi, 106-7, 129, 136; middle class, 52, 78, 84; working class, 74 Cliches: West's use of, 20, 35, 56, 57, 74, 98,113-31 "Closed Bank, Haverhill Iowa, 1939" (Rothstein), 2, 7 Coates, Robert, 50 Index Cohn, Harry, 105, 107, 168n21 "Colored Girls of Passenack" (Williams), 56-57 Columbia Studios, 105, 107 Comic Strips, xix, 72-73, 77 Communication: the advice column as a form of, 72, 73-76; Baudrillard on, 72, 73; and the possibilities of meaningful exchange, 71-73, 76 Communism, Communist Party, xii-xv, 17, 96, 112, 133 166n5; and Contact, 65, 66; and folk culture 161n5; and the notion of the people, 68, 163n3; and the Popular Front, xiii-xv, 50, 90; and nihilism , 58; and surrealism, 17-18; West's relationship to, xii, 22, 133 Communist Manifesto (Engels and Marx), 18, 135 Consumption, Commodification, Commodity Fetishism, xiv, xix, xx, 26, 27, 35, 79, 123, 124-27; and A Cool Million, 103, 104; and The Day of the Locust, 114, 123, 124-28; and the problem of...