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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472029082
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s)DDC classification:
  • 792.0223
LOC classification:
  • PN2193
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Avant-Garde Pluralities: An Introduction -- 1. Avant-Garde Rhetoric: Show Trials and Collapsing Discourse at the Birth of Surrealism -- 2. From Anti-Culture to Counter-Culture: The Emergence of the American Hybrid Vanguardism -- 3. Critique of the Artist as (Re)producer: Warhol, The Living Theatre, and Frankenstein -- 4. Brechtian Aesthetics and the Death of the Director in Peter Brook's The Mahabharata -- 5. From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance -- 6. Performing the Vanquished Vanguards: Nostalgia, Globalization, and the Possibility of Contemporary Avant-Gardes -- 7. Victims of History and the Ghosts of the Avant-Gardes: A Plausibly Deniable Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: A spirited challenge to previous notions of the avant-garde and avant-garde performance.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Avant-Garde Pluralities: An Introduction -- 1. Avant-Garde Rhetoric: Show Trials and Collapsing Discourse at the Birth of Surrealism -- 2. From Anti-Culture to Counter-Culture: The Emergence of the American Hybrid Vanguardism -- 3. Critique of the Artist as (Re)producer: Warhol, The Living Theatre, and Frankenstein -- 4. Brechtian Aesthetics and the Death of the Director in Peter Brook's The Mahabharata -- 5. From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance -- 6. Performing the Vanquished Vanguards: Nostalgia, Globalization, and the Possibility of Contemporary Avant-Gardes -- 7. Victims of History and the Ghosts of the Avant-Gardes: A Plausibly Deniable Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

A spirited challenge to previous notions of the avant-garde and avant-garde performance.

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