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Author: Bert Cardullo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0810887045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of essays by avant-garde theatre's most creative practitioners--directors, playwrights, performers, and designers--these writings provide direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating playwriting and performance of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author: Peter Bürger
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780719014536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James M. Harding
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0472036106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPronouncements 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: Robert Knopf
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780300134230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures a collection of significant avant-garde plays from around the world, along with essays that explore the evolution, objectives, and concerns facing the art form during the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: Andrew Kimbrough
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1621969371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arnold Aronson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780415241397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s looking at its origins and its theoretical foundations through an examination of literature, cinema and art.
Author: James M. Harding
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780472099313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost 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.
Author: Christopher Innes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1134920881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealisation of the elemental and a desire to find ritual in archaic traditions. This widespread primitivism is the key to understanding both the political and aesthetic aspects of modern theatre and provides fresh insights into contemporary social trends. The original text, first published in 1981 as Holy Theatre, has been fully revised and up-dated to take account of the most recent theoretical developments in anthropology, critical theory and psychotherapy. New sections on Heiner Muller, Robert Wilson, Eugenio Barba, Ariane Mnouchkine and Sam Shepard have been added. As a result, the book now deals with all the major avant garde theatre practitioners, in Europe and North America. Avant Garde Theatre will be essential reading for anyone attempting to understand contemporary drama.
Author: Dorita Hannah
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-07-11
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1135053774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’. ‘Event’ was of immense significance to modernism’s revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism – and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.
Author: Arnold Aronson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780472068883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging essays by an internationally prominent historian and theorist of theater set design
