Günter Berghaus

Avant-garde Performance (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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, Günter 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137093585
• Artikelnr.: 47896628

Autorenporträt

GÜNTER BERGHAUS is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.

GÜNTER BERGHAUS is a Reader in Theatre History and Performance Studies at the Drama Department, University of Bristol. He has published extensively on theatre anthropology, ritual studies, avant-garde performance, and Renaissance and Baroque theatre. He has served as principal organizer of several international conferences and has held research awards from the Polish Academy of Sciences, the German Research Foundation, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the British Academy, and the Brazilian Ministry of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

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.