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Autore |
Harding James Martin <1958-> |
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The ghosts of the avant-garde(s) : exorcising experimental theater and performance / / James M. Harding |
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Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2013] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Experimental theater - History and criticism |
Experimental drama - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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"" |
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" 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 |
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