Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde

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Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde is written by G. Berghaus and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230617522 (ISBN 10) and 9780230617520 (ISBN 13).

This study traces the origins of European modernism in Nineteenth-century Paris, examining every major avant-garde movement that sprung from this epicentre in the early Twentieth century: Expressionism, Dadaism, etc. In this wide-ranging overview Berghaus demonstrates a mastery of primary and secondary sources in several different languages.