TY - BOOK AU - Ferreboeuf,Rebecca AU - Noble,Fiona AU - Plunkett,Tara ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon T2 - Avant-Gardes in Performance SN - 9781137474377(ebook:PDF) U1 - 791.4309 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan US (Imprint) KW - Motion pictures-History KW - Performing arts KW - Literature-Philosophy KW - Theater-History KW - Fine Arts KW - Film History N2 - Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon interrogates the contemporary significance of the avant-garde. The contributors question the role of academia and exhibition cultures in redefining, reshaping, preserving, and transmitting the products of this historical phenomenon. Such contemporary scholarly and exhibition-based exploration institutionalizes avant-garde productions and, in doing so, threatens the potency of the avant-garde which relies on its marginal position. This volume brings together case studies to examine what constitutes the avant-garde canon UR - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474377 ER -