The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s)

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-472-11874-8
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

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 non-canonical 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. <em>The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s)</em> 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.

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<strong>James M. Harding</strong> is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His previous books include <em>Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde</em> and the co-edited collections <em>Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance; Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies</em> and <em>The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum</em>.