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The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde. Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance.
James M. Harding
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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 and on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy. At the most basic level, the book challenges pronouncements of the “death of the avant-garde” that tend to obscure the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gesture and expression. In place of a single history or theory of the avant-garde as such, the book posits the notion of “avant-garde pluralities” as its conceptual point of departure, and demonstrates how an appreciation of this multiplicity can lead to a more dynamic ... Read more
The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies and on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy. At the most basic level, the book challenges pronouncements of the “death of the avant-garde” that tend to obscure the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gesture and expression. In place of a single history or theory of the avant-garde as such, the book posits the notion of “avant-garde pluralities” as its conceptual point of departure, and demonstrates how an appreciation of this multiplicity can lead to a more dynamic ... Read more
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 Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His previous books include Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde and the co-edited collections Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance and Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies.
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