Avant Garde Performance

Author : Mike Sell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 9780472033072

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Avant-garde Performance & the Limits of Criticism by Mike Sell Pdf

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism looks at the American avant-garde during the Cold War period, focusing on the interrelated questions of performance practices, cultural resistance, and the politics of criticism and scholarship in the U.S. counterculture. This groundbreaking book examines the role of the scholar and critic in the cultural struggles of radical artists and reveals how avant-garde performance identifies the very limits of critical consideration. It also explores the popularization of the avant-garde: how formerly subversive art is eventually discovered by the mass media, is gobbled up by the marketplace, and finds its way onto the syllabi of college and university courses. This book is a timely and significant book that will appeal to those interested in avant-garde literary criticism, theater history, and performance studies.

Author : Gunter Berghaus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137093585

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Avant-garde Performance by Gunter Berghaus Pdf

How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it impact on the performing arts? How did the avant-garde challenge the artistic establishment and avoid the pull of commercial theatre, gallery and concert-hall circuits? How did performance artists respond to new technological developments? Placing key figures and performances in their historical, social and aesthetic context, Günter Berghaus offers an accessible introduction to post-war avant-garde performance. Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by text boxes and illustrations throughout, this volume explains the complex ideas behind avant-garde art and evocatively brings to life the work of some of its most influential performance artists. Covering hot topics such as multi-media and body art performances, this text is essential reading for students of theatre studies and performance.

Author : M. Sell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230298941

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Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange by M. Sell Pdf

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.

Author : Henry M. Sayre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226735580

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The Object of Performance by Henry M. Sayre Pdf

Looks at the development of American avant-garde art, including performance art, environmental art, conceptual art, video, and photo-realism.

Author : Claire Warden
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748681563

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Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance by Claire Warden Pdf

The first detailed, student-focused introduction to modernist avant-garde performanceThis textbook introduces the reader to modernist avant-garde theatre. It clearly explains the key terms as well as the major movements, including Expressionism, Dadaism, Futurism, Workers theatres, Constructivism and the Living Newspaper, and Mass Performance, using a case study approach. It introduces the important innovations of the modernist avant-garde, reassesses theatrical techniques, and provides examples of plays and performances from across Europe and America. There are also chapters on The Modernist Body and on Interdisciplinary Performance. The book approaches the modernist avant-garde both as an area of academic study and as potential raw material for contemporary performance. Key Features:nbsp;The first introductory guide to the modernist theatrical avant-garde nbsp;Includes case studies, practical exercises at the end of each chapter, an annotated bibliography and a glossary of performance termsnbsp;Includes links to performance-based explorations of theatrical techniquesnbsp;Provides a springboard for further independent study, both theoretical and practicalClaire Warden is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln. Her research focuses primarily on constructing new, fluid narratives for modernist performance. She is the author of British Avant-Garde Theatre (Palgrave MacMillan 2012), and multiple journal articles and book chapters on modernism, interdisciplinarity, theatre, art and cultural studies.

Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472036103

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The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) by James M. Harding Pdf

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.

Author : James Martin Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472067273

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Contours of the Theatrical Avant-garde by James Martin Harding Pdf

A critical history of avant-garde performance and the problematic relationship of text to performance

Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472117185

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Cutting Performances by James M. Harding Pdf

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

Author : Mladen Ovadija
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 9780773545885

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Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-garde and Postdramatic Theatre by Mladen Ovadija Pdf

New insight into the theatrical use of sound in avant-garde and postdramatic performance.

Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 082231391X

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Greenwich Village 1963 by Sally Banes Pdf

This book does not aim to document comprehensively the extraordinarily rich activity in New York City in the early 1960's. Instead, the author focuses on one year, 1963. This was the most productive year of the period 1958-64, the transition between the Fifties and Sixties. The author also focuses on one other place---Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. For it was primarily here, in a place already historically and culturally mythologized as avant-garde terrain, that the emerging generation of vanguard artists lived, worked, socialized, and remade the history of the avant-garde. - from the Introduction.

Author : Herbert N. Schneidau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520031652

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Sacred Discontent by Herbert N. Schneidau Pdf

Author : Liang Luo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472052172

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The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China by Liang Luo Pdf

Provides a new perspective on the Chinese avant-garde through the figure of artist and activist Tian Han

Author : G. Berghaus
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0230617522

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Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde by G. Berghaus Pdf

This study traces the origins of European modernism in Nineteenth-century Paris, examining every major avant-garde movement that sprung from this epicentre in the early Twentieth century: Expressionism, Dadaism, etc. In this wide-ranging overview Berghaus demonstrates a mastery of primary and secondary sources in several different languages.

Author : A. Curtin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137324795

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Avant-Garde Theatre Sound by A. Curtin Pdf

Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.

Author : James M. Harding,John Rouse
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472099310

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Not the Other Avant-Garde by James M. Harding,John Rouse Pdf

Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the Other Avant-Garde, forge a radically new conception of the avant-garde by demonstrating the many ways in which the first- and second-wave avant-gardes were always already a transnational phenomenon, an amalgam of often contradictory performance traditions and practices developed in various cultural locations around the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan. Essays from leading scholars and critics-including Marvin Carlson, Sudipto Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Peter Eckersall, Harry J. Elam Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hannah Higgins, and Adam Versényi-suggest collectively that the very concept of the avant-garde is possible only if conceptualized beyond the limitations of Eurocentric paradigms. Not the Other Avant-Garde is groundbreaking in both avant-garde studies and performance studies and will be a valuable contribution to the fields of theater studies, modernist studies, art history, literature, and music history. "Joins the growing field of critical and transnational theories on the arts. . . its grounding in live performance and its foregrounding of the performative human body presents a new theoretical paradigm that is pathbreaking." --Haiping Yan, University of California, Los Angeles James M. Harding is Associate Professor of English at Mary Washington University. He is author of Adorno and "A Writing of the Ruins": Essays on Modern Aesthetics and Anglo-American Literature and Culture and editor of Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality. John Rouse is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of Brecht and the West German Theatre.