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Examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of radical theater groups that came to prominence in the US during the period of the late sixties and early seventies. This book considers how radical theaters sought to redefine the relationship between theater and political activism, and how they challenged the foundations of theater itself.

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 global understanding of vanguardism in the performing arts. The book surveys a variety of canonical and non-canonical examples of avant-garde performance, and develops a range of theoretical paradigms that defend the haunting cultural and political significance...

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.

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Provides rich insights into the innovative and provocative political underpinnings of mainstream and popular performances in the 1960s. While much critical attention has been focused on experimental and radical theatre, the essays confirm that mainstream performances not only merit more scholarly attention, but through serious examination provide an important key to understanding the 1960s as a period.

Offers a strikingly new perspective on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies and on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy. At the most basic level, the book challenges pronouncements of the "death of the avant-garde”. The book posits the notion of "avant-garde pluralities” as its conceptual point of departure, and demonstrates how an appreciation of this multiplicity can lead to a mor...

Examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of radical theater groups that came to prominence in the US during the period of the late sixties and early seventies. This book considers how radical theaters sought to redefine the relationship between theater and political activism, and how they challenged the foundations of theater itself.

Focuses on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde. Drawing upon broadly conceptualized notions of collage aesthetics and performance art, this work may appeal to those interested in the cultural history of the avant-garde and the role that feminist experimental artists have played in it.