Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon (Avant-Gardes in Performance) - 9781137479303

Combining a range of content with self-reflexive examination by scholars and practitioners, this edited volume interrogates the contemporary significance of the avant-garde. The contributors question the role of academia and exhibition cultures in redefining, reshaping, preserving, and transmitting the products of this historical phenomenon. Such contemporary scholarly and exhibition-based exploration institutionalizes avant-garde productions and, in doing so, threatens the potency of the avant-garde which relies on its marginal position. Rather than focusing on a particular region, period, or movement, this volume brings together case studies to examine what constitutes the avant-garde canon.

• | Author: Rebecca Ferreboeuf, Fiona Noble, Tara Plunkett
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137479302
• | ISBN-13: 9781137479303