Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde

by Tyrus Miller

Book Overview

This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial "compositions"--verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic--of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's geographical span is primarily the United States, although in its more extended reach, it comprehends an international context of American postwar cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810125129
• ISBN13: 9780810125124
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"