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James M. Harding - The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde. Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance.  - 9780472036103 - V9780472036103
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The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde. Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance.

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Description for The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde. Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance. Paperback. A spirited challenge to previous notions of the avant-garde and avant-garde performance Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: ANF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.

The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies, arguing for the importance of reopening pivotal controversies and debates in avant-garde studies and challenging pronouncements of the “death of the avant-garde” that tend to obscure the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gesture and expression.

James M. Harding revisits iconic sites of early 20th-century performance to examine how European avant-gardists attempted—unsuccessfully—to employ that discourse as a strategy for enforcing uniformity among a politically and culturally diverse group of artists. He then takes aim at historical and aesthetic categories that have ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472036103
SKU
V9780472036103
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About James M. Harding
James M. Harding is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland.

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