Publisher description for Theatre, performance, and the historical avant-garde / Gunter Berghaus.
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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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Experimental theater.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)