From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance

While the Brechtian dimensions of Peter Brook’sThe Mahabharatamay cut across the grain of Brook’s expressed intent, and while those dimensions may highlight the unresolved tensions of an intercultural avantgarde, the tensions are arguably much less unique than one might initially suspect. Indeed, th...

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Published inThe Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) p. 136
Main Authors Harding, James M., Jr, Harding, James M
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Michigan Press 22.05.2013
Subjects
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Civilization
Cognitive processes
Cognitive psychology
Colonialism
Conceptualization
Cosmological philosophy
Cultural history
Exoticism
Government
Group identity
Hegemony
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
Hybridity
Metaphysics
National identity
Nationalism
Neocolonialism
Ontological properties
Ontology
Performing arts
Philosophy
Philosophy of time
Political science
Political systems
Primitivism
Psychology
Simultaneity
Social psychology
Sociology
Theater
Thought processes
Transnationalism
Western civilization
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Summary:While the Brechtian dimensions of Peter Brook’sThe Mahabharatamay cut across the grain of Brook’s expressed intent, and while those dimensions may highlight the unresolved tensions of an intercultural avantgarde, the tensions are arguably much less unique than one might initially suspect. Indeed, they are commonplace enough in the history of the avant-gardes that one might legitimately ask whether it is perhaps a bit redundant to speak of an intercultural avant-garde as some sort of distinct subcategory of the avant-gardes. From their very inception, the Western theatrical avant-gardes have consistently found themselves entangled in the cultural politics of colonialism.
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