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Avant-garde Performance G. Berghaus

Avant-garde Performance By G. Berghaus

Avant-garde Performance by G. Berghaus


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Summary

How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it stimulate developments in the performing arts? Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by text boxes throughout, this volume presents some of the general characteristics of postwar avant-garde performance and gives detailed coverage to some of the most.

Avant-garde Performance Summary

Avant-garde Performance by G. Berghaus

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, Gunter 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.

Avant-garde Performance Reviews

'A major and important work, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between experimental art and society through the twentieth century.' - Christopher Innes, Canada Research Chair, York University, Toronto 'An extremely valuable introduction to the history and development of avant-garde performance.' - Nick Kaye, University of Exeter

About G. Berghaus

GUENTER BERGHAUS is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published widely in the areas of Renaissance and Baroque theatre, popular theatre, dance history, Modernist theatre, and avant-garde performance. As a theatre practitioner he has directed numerous plays from the classical and modern repertoire and devised many productions of an experimental nature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.- Illustrations, Tables, Text Boxes, Chronologies.- Foreword.- The Genesis of Modernity and of the Avant-Garde.- Towards an Avant-garde Performance Practice, 1896-1919.- From Late Modernism to Postmodernism.- Happening and Fluxus.- Body Art, Ritualism and Neo-Shamanic Performances.- Video and Multi-Media Performance.- Performances in Cyberspace.- Epilogue: The Future of the Avant-garde.- Bibliography.- Index.

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GOR009086214
9781403946454
1403946450
Avant-garde Performance by G. Berghaus
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20050504
400
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