Cutting Performances - Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde

James M. Harding is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. His other books include "Not the Other Avant-Garde: Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance" (with John Rouse); "Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies" (with Cindy Rosenthal); and "Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality." Klappentext Challenges four decades' worth of scholarship on the American avant-garde by offering a provocative reconceptualization of the history of avant-garde performance along feminist lines. Focusing on five women artists whose performance aesthetics made prominent use of collage techniques! James M. Harding sheds light on the cultural history of the avant-garde and the role that experimental women artists played in that history. Zusammenfassung Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

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• Authors: James M. Harding
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2012
• EAN: 9780472035205
• ISBN: 978-0-472-03520-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance; Theater: Theory/Text/Performan; Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history