Course Name: The New Avant-Gardes: US Avant-Garde Performance after World-War II
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SLN: 13467
Meeting Time: M 2:30pm - 5:20pm
Term: Spring 2022
Description
Since the 1960s, when the so-called historical avant-garde began to be seriously examined, scholars have proclaimed the avant-garde dead on many occasions. Equally frequently, other scholars have countered that the death of the avant-garde has been announced prematurely. This course examines the conditions under which avant-garde aesthetic has emerged in the US and elsewhere since WWII. Key moments include the Paris student riots of 1968, which many critics have endowed with the status of the first neo-avant-garde performance, and 9/11, which others view as the beginning of a conservative avant-garde. This course is particularly interested in the intersections among avant-garde art and performances of gender, race, and religion.
Catalog Description: Analytic approaches to dramatic materials, concentrating on semiotics, Marxism, feminism, or a related critical theory.