Book

The ghosts of the avant-garde(s) : exorcising experimental theater and performance

Harding, James Martin, 1958-

Overview

\" 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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
• Subject: Experimental theater History and criticism. / Experimental drama History and criticism. / PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. / ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
• ISBN: 9780472118748, 0472118749

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN2193.E86 H375 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE