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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809978003321

Autore

Harding James Martin <1958->

Titolo

Cutting performances : collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde / / James M. Harding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

9786613721808

9781280880490

128088049X

9780472029006

0472029002

Edizione

[1st pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Theater : theory/text/performance

Disciplina

792.022

Soggetti

Feminist theater

Experimental theater

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 (pages 215-222).

Nota di contenuto

Toward a feminist historiography of American avant-garde performance: theories and contexts -- Nude descending Bleecker Street: Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and performing gender in New York dada -- Avant-garde performance, collage aesthetics, and feminist historiographies in Gertrude Stein's the mother of us all -- Between material and matrix: Yoko Ono's cut piece and the unmaking of collage -- Between dialectics, decorum, and collage: sabotaging Schneemann at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, London 1967 -- Forget fame: Valerie Solanas, the simplest surrealist act, and the (re)assertion of avant-garde priorities -- Conclusion: Collage and community.

Sommario/riassunto

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde.