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The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance
Full title: | The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance |
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ISBN: | 9780472036103 |
ISBN 10: | 0472036106 |
Authors: | Harding, James M. |
Publisher: | University Of Michigan Press |
Edition: | Reprint |
Num. pages: | 248 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2015 |
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Synopsis
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.