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Author: 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: Arnold Aronson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1136370765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s. American Avant-Garde Theatre offers a definition of the avant-garde, and looks at its origins and theoretical foundations by examining: *Gertrude Stein *John Cage *The Beat writers *Avant-garde cinema *Abstract Expressionism *Minimalism There are fascinating discussions and illustrations of the productions of the Living Theatre, the Wooster Group, Open Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and Performance Group. among many others. Aronson also examines why avant-garde theatre declined and virtually disappeared at the end of the twentieth century.
Author: Sarah Bay-Cheng
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1135924163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSarah Bay-Cheng offers an examination of Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes.
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
Author: Robert Knopf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-04-28
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 030021054X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Each play is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction by the editor, and a critical essay, frequently written by the playwright, which elaborates on the play’s dramatic and aesthetic concerns. A new introduction by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten contextualizes the plays in light of recent critical developments in avant-garde studies. By examining the groundbreaking theatrical experiments of Jarry, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Artaud, and others, the book foregrounds the avant-garde’s enduring influence on the development of modern theater.
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: Julia Listengarten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1108570267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices, forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity in practice and representation, the volume examines the various creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the 1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.
Author: Sarah J. Townsend
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0810137429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA certain idea of the avant-garde posits the possibility of a total rupture with the past. The Unfinished Art of Theater pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the semiperiphery of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this “unfinished art”—precisely because of its historic weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and Brazil, where the bourgeois stage had not (yet) coalesced—was at the forefront of struggles to redefine the relationship between art and social change. Drawing on extensive archival research, Sarah J. Townsend reveals the importance of projects and texts that belie the rhetoric of rupture and immediacy associated with the avant-garde: ethnographic operas with ties to the recording industry, populist puppet plays, children’s radio programs about the wonders of technology, a philosophical drama about the birth of a new race, and an antifascist spectacle written for (but never performed at) a theater shut down by the police. Ultimately, the book makes the case that the very category of avant-garde art is bound up in the experience of dependency, delay, and the uneven development of capitalism.
Author: James A. Herne
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 45
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Federation of Arts
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys avant-garde cinema from 1943 to 1972 and includes the work of Alexander Hammid, Willard Maas, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, Ian Hugo, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Bruce Conner, Robert Breer, Stan Vanderbeek, Maria Menken, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Baillie, Tony Conrad, Jordan Belson, George Landow, James Whitney, Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, Standish D. Lawder, Larry Jordan, Robert Nelson, Ernie Gehr, Barry Gerson, Hollis Frampton.
