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The ghosts of the avant-garde(s) : exorcising experimental theater and performance / James M. Harding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harding, James Martin, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental theater--History and criticism.
- Experimental theater.
- Experimental drama--History and criticism.
- Experimental drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- " 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.
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472029082
- 0472029088
- OCLC:
- 848902290
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