Viewers in distress : race, gender, religion, and avant-garde performance at the turn of the twenty-first century /

"Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the...

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Main Author: Mihaylova, Stefka G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023
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