Avant-Garde Performance & the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement

by Mike Sell

Book Overview

"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 the historical avant-garde and Cold War vanguard art and theatre. Sell's compelling historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472033077
• ISBN13: 9780472033072
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"