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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.