Avant-Garde Performance & the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/ Fluxus, And the Black Arts Movement - Couverture rigide

Sell, Mike

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0472114956 ISBN 13 : 9780472114955

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2005

Synopsis

Explores the dynamic interactions of performance, politics, and literary criticism in three U.S. countercultures in the 1950s and 60s This pathbreaking book looks at the American avant-garde during the Cold War period, focusing on the interrelated questions of performance practices, cultural resistance, and the politics of criticism and scholarship in the U.S. counter-culture. It develops three case studies - the Living Theatre's influential production The Connection, the earliest productions of performance art, and the poetry and plays of the Black Arts Movement - and examines the role of the scholar and critic in the cultural struggles of radical artists and activists. The book also explores the popularization of the avant-garde, when formerly subversive art is discovered by the mass media, gobbled up by the marketplace, and eventually finds its way onto the syllabi of college and university courses.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mike Sell is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472114956
• ISBN 13: 9780472114955
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible