Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies.1403946450 Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies. Berghaus For the German geographer, see . Berghaus is an outdoor clothing and equipment manufacturer owned by the Pentland group based of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1966 by Peter Lockey and Gordon Davison, initially as an importer and distributor of outdoors products. , Gunter. Palgrave Macmillan 2005 374 pages $29.95 Paperback PN2193 The avant-garde has been criticized for being too commercial to be avant-garde, not commercial enough to further the cause of the avant-garde, and too self-indulgent to make a statement. Rather than focusing on the controversies that inevitably are heaped on the challenging, Berghaus (theater, U. of Bristol) describes the antecedents and reasons for the very concepts behind the avant-garde, its genesis within modernity, the earliest performance practices up to 1919, and transition from late modernism Late Modernism, encompasses the overall production of most recent art made between the aftermath of World War II and the early years of the 21st century. The terminology often points to similarities between late modernism and post-modernism although there are differences. to postmodernism postmodernism, term used to designate a multitude of trends—in the arts, philosophy, religion, technology, and many other areas—that come after and deviate from the many 20th-cent. movements that constituted modernism. , and the beginning of the avant-garde in the USA and Japan. He then tackles the performances themselves, ranging from body art, ritualism rit·u·al·ism n. 1. The practice or observance of religious ritual. 2. Insistence on or adherence to ritual. ritualism Noun and neo-shamanism to video and multimedia and the rise of the avant-garde in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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