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Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
AvantGarde Performance and the Limits of Criticism Approaching the Living Theatre Happenings/Fluxus and the Black Arts Movement - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Author:Mike Sell "Questions the limits of previous critical approaches to the avant-garde . . . [and] displays a deep sensitivity for the political aesthetics of the Western avant-garde, particularly as those political aesthetics pertain to the institution of cultural criticism itself." — ---Theatre Journal"A provocative exploration of relations between th... more »e historical avant-garde and Cold War vanguard art and theatre. Sell's compelling historical and cultural narrative shows how the connections between the two exist at a very deep level of radical politics and aesthetics---an amazing concoction of rigorous scholarship, interdisciplinary learning, and progressive theorizing."
---Michael Vanden Heuvel, University of Wisconsin, Madison"An important study that will raise the bar not only on scholarship of the Black Arts Movement, but on U.S. avant-gardism generally."