6 x 9. 272 pgs. 14 illustrations. (1995) Cloth 978-0-472-10507-6 $70.00S  Available Add to Cart Search this Book's Content About the Book Praise Look Inside Series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Subjects Art--Architecture / Literary Studies--European Literature / Literary Studies--Modern Literature / Theater and Performance

The Aesthetics of Disturbance
Anti-Art in Avant-Garde Drama

David Graver



Explores interconnections among early 20th-century visual, literary, and performance art

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Contents

List of Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Chapter 1: Defining the Avant-Garde     1
Chapter 2: Negotiating the Aesthetic Material of Drama     43
Chapter 3: Kokoschka: Disturbing Spectacles     65
Chapter 4: Benn: Staging Impossibilities     93
Chapter 5: Roussel: Objectifying Invention     119
Chapter 6: Vitrac: Confronting Conventions     153
Chapter 7: Lewis: Performing Print     179
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Brecht, Artaud, and the Limits of the Artwork     209
Notes     223
Index     249