The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance - Couverture souple

Harding, James M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472036106 ISBN 13 : 9780472036103

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 promoted a restrictive history and theory of the avant-garde and narrow readings of avant-garde performance. Harding reveals the Eurocentric undercurrents that underlie these categories and urges a consideration of the global political dimensions of avant-garde gestures. His book will interest scholars of theater and performance, art history, and literary studies, as well as those interested in the relation of art to politics in various historical periods and cultures.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James M. Harding is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472036106
• ISBN 13: 9780472036103
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible