03755nam 2200613Ia 450 991046346230332120200520144314.00-472-02908-810.3998/mpub.5070882(CKB)3170000000060257(EBL)3570473(SSID)ssj0000891408(PQKBManifestationID)12384667(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000891408(PQKBWorkID)10890833(PQKB)11268873(MiAaPQ)EBC3570473(OCoLC)848902290(MdBmJHUP)muse24872(MiU)10.3998/mpub.5070882(Au-PeEL)EBL3570473(CaPaEBR)ebr10720519(CaONFJC)MIL497816(EXLCZ)99317000000006025720121212d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe ghosts of the avant-garde(s)[electronic resource] exorcising experimental theater and performance /James M. HardingAnn Arbor University of Michigan Press20131 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-472-11874-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""" 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"--Provided by publisher.Experimental theaterHistory and criticismExperimental dramaHistory and criticismElectronic books.Experimental theaterHistory and criticism.Experimental dramaHistory and criticism.792.02/23Harding James Martin1958-973908Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463462303321The ghosts of the avant-garde(s)2216695UNINA