collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Harding, James M.
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- podiumkunsten, performance, beeldende kunsten, kunstenaressen
- Description
- Focusing on five women artists (Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, and Valerie Solanas) whose performance aesthetics made prominent use of collage techniques, James M. Harding sheds light on the cultural history of the avant-garde and the role that experimental women artists played in that history. He investigates the prominent position that collage technique occupied within the artists' performance aesthetic, and the decisively feminist inflection that their work gives to collage as a mode of avant-garde expression.