An edition of The ghosts of the avant-garde(s) (2013)

The ghosts of the avant-garde(s)

exorcising experimental theater and performance

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An edition of The ghosts of the avant-garde(s) (2013)

The ghosts of the avant-garde(s)

exorcising experimental theater and performance

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"Pronouncements such as "the avant-garde is dead," argues James M. Harding, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. His book examines the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gestures and expressions to suggest "avant-garde pluralities" and how an appreciation of these pluralities enables a more dynamic and increasingly global understanding of vanguardism in the performing arts. In pursuing this goal, the book not only surveys a wide variety of canonical and noncanonical examples of avant-garde performance, but also develops a range of theoretical paradigms that defend the haunting cultural and political significance of avant-garde expressions beyond what critics have presumed to be the death of the avant-garde. The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective not only on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies but also on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy"--

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English
Pages
234

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Table of Contents

Introduction: avant-garde pluralities, an introduction
Avant-garde rhetoric : show trials and collapsing discourse at the birth of surrealism
From anti-culture to counter-culture : the emergence of the American hybrid vanguardism
Critique of the artist as (re)producer : Warhol, The Living Theatre, and Frankenstein
Brechtian aesthetics and the death of the director in Peter Brook's The Mahabharata
From cutting edge to rough edges : on the transnational foundations of avant-garde performance
Performing the vanquished vanguards : nostalgia, globalization, and the possibility of avant-gardes
Victims of history and the ghosts of the avant-gardes : a plausibly deniable conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internet Archive - 2

Internet Archive 2

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.02/23
Library of Congress
PN2193.E86 H375 2013, PN2193, PN2193.E86H375 2013, HD9710

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 234 pages
Number of pages
234

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27790979M
Internet Archive
ghostsofavantgar0000hard
ISBN 10
0472118749, 0472029363
ISBN 13
9780472118748, 9780472029082, 9780472029365
LCCN
2012042609
OCLC/WorldCat
820119245

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