Cutting performances
Subtitle: collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde
By: James M. Harding.
Series: Theater : theory/text/performance
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780472117185
Subjects: Experimental theater; Feminist theater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a feminist historiography of American avant-garde performance: theories and contexts; title: Nude descending Bleecker Street: Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and performing gender in New York dada; title: Avant-garde performance, collage aesthetics, and feminist historiographies in Gertrude Stein's the mother of us all; title: Between material and matrix: Yoko Ono's cut piece and the unmaking of collage; title: Between dialectics, decorum, and collage: sabotaging schneemann at the dialectics of liberation congress, London 1967; title: Forget fame: Valerie Solanas, the simplest surrealist act, and the (re)assertion of avant-garde priorities.