Cutting performances : collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde / James M. Harding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harding, James Martin, 1958-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Theater--theory/text/performance.

Theater : theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theater.

Experimental theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde.

Contents:

Toward a feminist historiography of American avant-garde performance: theories and contexts

Nude descending Bleecker Street: Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and performing gender in New York dada

Avant-garde performance, collage aesthetics, and feminist historiographies in Gertrude Stein's the mother of us all

Between material and matrix: Yoko Ono's cut piece and the unmaking of collage

Between dialectics, decorum, and collage: sabotaging Schneemann at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, London 1967

Forget fame: Valerie Solanas, the simplest surrealist act, and the (re)assertion of avant-garde priorities

Conclusion: Collage and community.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 215-222).

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786613721808

9781280880490

128088049X

9780472029006

0472029002