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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harding, James Martin, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.