Now in Paperback: Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde

Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde

By Günter Berghaus

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
ISBN (hardcover): 1-4039-6955-8 / (paperback) 0-230-61752-2
400 pages
35 b/w illus

This comprehensive study traces the origins of European modernism in nineteenth-century Paris, then branches out to examine four major movements of the theatrical avant-garde that sprung from this epicenter in the early twentieth-century: Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Constructivism.

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