1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005934010203316

Titolo

Purposes of history : studies in greek historiography from the 4. to the 2. centuries B.C. : proceedings of the International colloquium, Leuven, 24-26 may 1988 / edited by H. Verdin, G. Schepens and E. De Keyser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lovanii : [Universitas Catholica Lovaniensis], 1990

Descrizione fisica

XXX,385 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Studia hellenistica ; 30

Disciplina

938.0072

Soggetti

Storiografia greca - Congressi

Collocazione

CH 16

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Inglese

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463462303321

Autore

Harding James Martin <1958->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2013

ISBN

0-472-02908-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

792.02/23

Soggetti

Experimental theater - History and criticism

Experimental drama - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - Avant-Garde Rhetoric: Show Trials and Collapsing Discourse at the Birth of Surrealism ""; ""Chapter 2 - From Anti-Culture to Counter-Culture: The Emergence of the American Hybrid Vanguardism ""; ""Chapter 3 - Critique of the Artist as (Re)producer: Warhol, The Living Theatre, and 'Frankenstein' ""; ""Chapter 4 - Brechtian Aesthetics and the Death of the Director in Peter Brook's 'The Mahabharata'""; ""Chapter 5 - From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance ""

""Chapter 6 - Performing the Vanquished Vanguards: Nostalgia, Globalization, and the Possibility of Contemporary Avant-Gardes """"Chapter 7 - Victims of History and the Ghosts of the Avant-Gardes: A Plausibly Deniable Conclusion ""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

" 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"--