Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0472119672 ISBN 13: 9780472119677

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage),  the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals—unification, exaltation, immersion—are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.

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L'autore:

Kimberly Jannarone is Professor of Theater Arts and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Artaud and His Doubles.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0472119672
• ISBN 13: 9780472119677
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Jannarone Kimberly