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The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) Exorcising Experimental By James M. Harding, HC
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- Condition
- Good
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- Country of Origin
- United States
- Book Title
- The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater
- ISBN-10
- 0472118749
- Personalized
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- ISBN
- 9780472118748
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10
0472118749
ISBN-13
9780472118748
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160035002
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ghosts of the Avantgarde(s) : Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance
Publication Year
2013
Subject
History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Drama, Theater / History & Criticism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Art, Performing Arts
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-042609
Reviews
"As Harding persuasively argues, history is where scholars should consign rigid theoretical models of 'the historical avant-garde' - not vanguardism itself." - Comparative Drama, "Performance offers a way of thinking differently about the histories and contemporary relevance of art at the cutting edge . . . James M. Harding takes Peter Bürger's influential Theory of the Avant Garde to task for establishing a critical orthodoxy that fails to consider the multiplicity of avant-gardes . . . Harding's examination of the critical discourses of and about the various avant-gardes . . . offers an open and dynamic alternative to a coherent or 'monolithic' avant-garde project." -- Times Literary Supplement, "Part of the function of an avant-garde ... is to revive and reanimate spirits long since crushed by outside forces, such as, most recently, globalization and the 'war on terror.' Harding's political passions emerge most forcefully here, as he aligns his thinking with Walter Benjamin's lament over a history written only by its victors." --- Times Literary Supplement, " The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) is a timely and significant contribution to the field of avant-garde studies. It both assesses and advances the field; by engaging in heated critical debates and offering original perspectives, Harding challenges the reader to consider uncharted territories in understanding and interrogating the avant-gardes. While, at times, performance analyses lack descriptive details that could potentially focus more on exploring performances and artists rather than theoretical debates around them, the book nevertheless presents a compelling case for the continued revisioning of avant-garde theories and practices." -- Theatre Journal, "As Harding persuasively argues, history is where scholars should consign rigid theoretical models of 'the historical avant-garde'--not vanguardism itself." -- Comparative Drama, "James M. Harding's latest book is a manifesto calling for an overhaul in contemporary scholarship on experimental performance of the last century... Looking back and ahead at the same time, Harding demands a shake up of the way we study and practice theatre history. In Ghosts of the Avant-Garde, he proposes an exorcism of an entire field." -- TDR
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
792.0223
Synopsis
The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies, arguing for the importance of reopening pivotal controversies and debates in avant-garde studies and challenging pronouncements of the "death of the avant-garde" that tend to obscure the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gesture and expression. James M. Harding revisits iconic sites of early 20th-century performance to examine how European avant-gardists attempted--unsuccessfully--to employ that discourse as a strategy for enforcing uniformity among a politically and culturally diverse group of artists. He then takes aim at historical and aesthetic categories that have promoted a restrictive history and theory of the avant-garde and narrow readings of avant-garde performance. Harding reveals the Eurocentric undercurrents that underlie these categories and urges a consideration of the global political dimensions of avant-garde gestures. His book will interest scholars of theater and performance, art history, and literary studies, as well as those interested in the relation of art to politics in various historical periods and cultures.
LC Classification Number
PN2193.E86H375 2013
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