| Description |
1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
Pronouncements such as "the avant-garde is dead," argues the author, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. This 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. This book offers a striking 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Experimental theater -- History and criticism
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Experimental drama -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Stagecraft.
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Experimental drama
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Experimental theater
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Experimentelles Theater
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Performance.
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Avantgarde
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012042609 |
| ISBN |
9780472029082 |
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0472029088 |
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9780472036103 |
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0472036106 |
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