The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) - 9780472036103

The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s)Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance\nAuthor(s): James M. Harding\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472036103, 978-0472036103\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\n James M. Harding revisits iconic sites of early 20th-century performance to examine how European avant-gardists attemptedunsuccessfullyto 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 promote.