Cutting Performances

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-472-11718-5
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, Hardback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

This book sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde. ""Cutting Performances"" boldly challenges four decades of scholarship to revise the history of American avant-garde performance. Focusing on the modernist period, the book explores the work of five celebrated women artists whose performance aesthetics make prominent use of collage techniques - Elsa von Freytag-Loring-hoven, Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, and Valerie Solanas - to reveal how their work gave a decisively feminist inflection to collage as a mode of avant-garde expression. Drawing upon broadly conceptualized notions of collage aesthetics and performance art, this impressively interdisciplinary work will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of the avant-garde and the role that feminist experimental artists have played in it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harding, James M.

Über Autor(innen)

James M. Harding is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. His other books include Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance (with John Rouse), Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies (with Cindy Rosenthal), and Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality.