Cutting Performances : Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter One: Toward a Feminist Historiography of American Avant-Garde Performance: Theories and Contexts -- Chapter Two: Nude Descending Bleecker Street: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Performing Gender in New York Dada -- Chapter Three: Avant-Garde Performance, Collage Aesthetics, and Feminist Historiographies in Gertrude Stein's 'The Mother of Us All' -- Chapter Four: Between Material and Matrix: Yoko Ono's 'Cut Piece' and the Unmaking of Collage -- Chapter Five: Between Dialectics, Decorum, and Collage Sabotaging Schneemann at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, London 1967 -- Chapter Six: Forget Fame: Valerie Solanas, the Simplest Surrealist Act, and the (Re)Assertion of Avant-Garde Priorities -- Conclusion: Collage and Community -- Notes -- Index.

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

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