The French Avant Garde Tradition in American Alternative Theatre
Author : Chela Jane Cadwell
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Chela Jane Cadwell
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472025090
Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the Other Avant-Garde, forge a radically new conception of the avant-garde by demonstrating the many ways in which the first- and second-wave avant-gardes were always already a transnational phenomenon, an amalgam of often contradictory performance traditions and practices developed in various cultural locations around the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan. Essays from leading scholars and critics-including Marvin Carlson, Sudipto Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Peter Eckersall, Harry J. Elam Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hannah Higgins, and Adam Versényi-suggest collectively that the very concept of the avant-garde is possible only if conceptualized beyond the limitations of Eurocentric paradigms. Not the Other Avant-Garde is groundbreaking in both avant-garde studies and performance studies and will be a valuable contribution to the fields of theater studies, modernist studies, art history, literature, and music history. "Joins the growing field of critical and transnational theories on the arts. . . its grounding in live performance and its foregrounding of the performative human body presents a new theoretical paradigm that is pathbreaking." --Haiping Yan, University of California, Los Angeles James M. Harding is Associate Professor of English at Mary Washington University. He is author of Adorno and "A Writing of the Ruins": Essays on Modern Aesthetics and Anglo-American Literature and Culture and editor of Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality. John Rouse is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of Brecht and the West German Theatre.
Author : Leonard C. Pronko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520313798
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472036106
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.
Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810887045
In this collection of essays by avant-garde theatre's most creative practitioners--directors, playwrights, performers, and designers--these writings provide direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating playwriting and performance of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : John A. Henderson
Publisher : London : G. G. Harrap
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Experimental theater
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Author : M. Sell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 023029894X
Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.
Author : Leonard Cabell Pronko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Discusses playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, Jean Genet, Jean Tardieu, Jean Vauthier, Henri Pichette, Michel de Ghelderode, Jacques Audiberti, and Georges Schehade.
Author : Mike Sell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 0472033077
Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism looks at the American avant-garde during the Cold War period, focusing on the interrelated questions of performance practices, cultural resistance, and the politics of criticism and scholarship in the U.S. counterculture. This groundbreaking book examines the role of the scholar and critic in the cultural struggles of radical artists and reveals how avant-garde performance identifies the very limits of critical consideration. It also explores the popularization of the avant-garde: how formerly subversive art is eventually discovered by the mass media, is gobbled up by the marketplace, and finds its way onto the syllabi of college and university courses. This book is a timely and significant book that will appeal to those interested in avant-garde literary criticism, theater history, and performance studies.
Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472035207
Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde