The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance
- ISBN-10
- 0472036106
- ISBN-13
- 9780472036103
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10-22
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- James M. Harding
Description
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.
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