Title: Cutting performances : collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde /
Authors: Harding, James Martin, 1958-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Experimental theater.; Feminist theater.
Contents: Toward a feminist historiography of American avant-garde performance: theories and contexts -- Nude descending Bleecker Street: Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and performing gender in New York dada -- Avant-garde performance, collage aesthetics, and feminist historiographies in Gertrude Stein's the mother of us all -- Between material and matrix: Yoko Ono's cut piece and the unmaking of collage -- Between dialectics, decorum, and collage: sabotaging schneemann at the dialectics of liberation congress, London 1967 -- Forget fame: Valerie Solanas, the simplest surrealist act, and the (re)assertion of avant-garde priorities.