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

Englisch

Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press, 2013

IX, 234 S. : Ill.

978-0-472-11874-8*hbk.

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-472-02908-2

*Experimentelles Theater / Avantgarde

*Experimental theater -- History and criticism ; Experimental drama -- History and criticism

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PN2193.E86

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: [23] 792.02/23

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AP 70050

" 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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