Title: The ghosts of the avant-garde(s)
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"--
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS, Theater, History and criticism, Avantgarde, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Experimentelles Theater, History & Criticism, Performance, ART, Experimental drama, Experimental theater, History, Theater, history, Experimental drama, history and criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)