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Revolutionary Time and the Avant Garde
The first book of its kind to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of capitalist non-reproduction.
Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of Today
The publication is comprised of eight essays, two interviews, and 15 case studies of political theatre makers, and investigates the performing arts as a political laboratory of the present. It explores how theatre, dance, and performance reveal their essential agnosticism, provoking the potential to actively change society rather than merely serving as a cover-up for the dysfunctions, fractures, and wounds of society.
Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings
Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.
Striding Out: Aspects of Contemporary and New Dance in Britain
A detailed examination of selected choreographers of the 1960s and the 1970s.
Out of Line: The Story of British New Dance
A history of British new dance from its origins in the 1960s to the early 1990s.
Dreams and Deconstructions: Alternative Theatre in Britain
An illustrated account of the development of alternative theatre in Britain over the 60s and 70s.
Disrupting the spectacle: Five years of experimental and fringe theatre in Britain
This publication documents the development of British theatre from 1968 to 1973.
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Contemporary Experimental Theatre
A critical survey of international experimental theatres of the late 20th century, and the social and political condition that bred them.
The Curatorial Turn
In this article, Tom Sellar begins to define the mercurial role of the performance curator that has been emerging at the intersections of theatrical practice and the visual arts and their presentation.
Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings
Collection including previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs, as well as a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
