American Avant-Garde Theatre
A History
Series: Theatre Production Studies
List Price: $35.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-24139-7
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 09/28/2000
- Pages: 256
- Trim Size: 216X138
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About the Book
This stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s. American Avant-Garde Theatre offers a definition of the avant-garde, and looks at its origins and theoretical foundations by examining:*Gertrude Stein
*John Cage
*The Beat writers
*Avant-garde cinema
*Abstract Expressionism
*Minimalism
There are fascinating discussions and illustrations of the productions of the Living Theatre, the Wooster Group, Open Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and Performance Group. among many others. Aronson also examines why avant-garde theatre declined and virtually disappeared at the end of the twentieth century.
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