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Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right
Kimberly Jannarone (Ed.)
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Description for Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right
Hardcover. Challenges assumptions regarding "radical" and "experimental" performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The essays bring to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes they sought to oppose. Editor(s): Jannarone, Kimberly. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The essays bring to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes they sought to oppose.
The volume explores a central paradox, examining how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by top international scholars pose engaging new questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and ... Read more
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The essays bring to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes they sought to oppose.
The volume explores a central paradox, examining how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by top international scholars pose engaging new questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119677
SKU
V9780472119677
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About Kimberly Jannarone (Ed.)
Kimberly Jannarone is Professor of Theater Arts and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. She is author of Artaud and His Doubles.
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