An American Avant Garde: Second Wave
Author | : John M. Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Artists' books |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John M. Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Artists' books |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arnold Aronson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136370765 |
This 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 | : James M. Harding |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0472036106 |
Pronouncements 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 | : John M. Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susan E. Strickler |
Publisher | : Steve Parish |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William E.B. Verrone |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786488816 |
Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films, all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films, which often rely on characteristics associated with historical films of the same genre. Included are works by such visionary filmmakers as David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin and Derek Jarman. The first of the two appendices contains a filmography of key avant-garde feature films, from Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) to Maximum Shame (2010). The second appendix offers a brief list of directors who have made significant contributions to films that take alternative approaches to cinematic practice, establishing new grounds for analysis and evaluation.
Author | : Eric B White |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748645225 |
Provides an alternative account of the modernist transatlanticTransatlantic Avant-Gardes offers a revisionary account of the evolution of twentieth-century modernism. Complimenting recent studies of modernist expatriates, Eric White explores new points of contact between European and American avant-gardes to place 'located' figures such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, and Alfred Kreymborg back into the 'global design' of literary modernism. Focusing on artist-run 'little magazines' (including Others, Contact, The Little Review, Blast, The Dial, Fire!!, and Pagany) and selected fine press publications and mainstream periodicals, White also reconsiders the boundaries that traditionally divide modernist literature into 'exile' and 'localist', or 'regionalist' and 'cosmopolitan', factions. Thus, the book proposes a version of localist modernism that prioritises issues of geographic and textual 'location' to deliver a 'networked' approach to American modernism in the transatlantic context. Combining literary-historical, textual, and cultural criticism, Transatlantic Avant-Gardes provides a new reading of the specialised literary networks that interrogated the relationship between geographic place, textual space and national identity in the modernist transatlantic.
Author | : Jonathan L. Owen |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857451278 |
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.
Author | : Ohio State University. Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literature, Experimental |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stuart D. Hobbs |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0814735398 |
"By 1966, the composer Virgil Thomson would write, "Truth is, there is no avant-garde today." How did the avant garde dissolve, and why? In this thought-provoking work, Stuart D. Hobbs traces the avant garde from its origins to its eventual appropriation by a conservative political agenda, consumer culture, and the institutional world of art.