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Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story.

Table of Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: “Can We All Get Along?”
  • Chapter 1: The Radical Formalism of Suzan-Lori Parks and Sarah Kane
  • Chapter 2: A Spectator Prepares: Forced Entertainment’s Theatre of Critical
  • Feeling
  • Chapter 3: The Behzti Riot as a Contemporary Avant-Garde
  • Chapter 4: Feeling Bad about Being White: Young Jean Lee’s Theatre and
  • the Progressive Avant-Garde
  • Coda: The Liberal Individual’s Postmodern Return Bibliography

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        Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
        Publication Date: 7/5/2023 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780472056323, 978-0472056323
        ISBN10: 0472056328

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story.

        Table of Contents
        • Illustrations
        • Introduction: “Can We All Get Along?”
        • Chapter 1: The Radical Formalism of Suzan-Lori Parks and Sarah Kane
        • Chapter 2: A Spectator Prepares: Forced Entertainment’s Theatre of Critical
        • Feeling
        • Chapter 3: The Behzti Riot as a Contemporary Avant-Garde
        • Chapter 4: Feeling Bad about Being White: Young Jean Lee’s Theatre and
        • the Progressive Avant-Garde
        • Coda: The Liberal Individual’s Postmodern Return Bibliography

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