Radical theatrics : put-ons, politics, and the sixties /

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Author / Creator:Peariso, Craig J., author.
Imprint:Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Description:xi, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Radicalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Radicals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Performing arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Street theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Political aspects.
Counterculture.
Performing arts -- Political aspects.
Political activists.
Political culture.
Protest movements.
Radicals.
United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10116596
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ISBN:9780295994116
0295994118
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"From burning draft cards to staging nude protests, much left-wing political activism in 1960s America was distinguished by deliberate outrageousness. This theatrical activism, aimed at the mass media and practiced by Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and the Gay Activists Alliance, among others, is often dismissed as naive and out of touch, or criticized for tactics condemned as silly and off-putting to the general public. In Radical Theatrics, however, Craig Peariso argues that these over-the-top antics were far more than just the spontaneous actions of a self-indulgent radical impulse. Instead, he shows, they were well-considered aesthetic and political responses to a jaded cultural climate in which an unreflective 'tolerance' masked an unwillingness to engage with challenging ideas. Through innovative analysis that links political protest to the art of contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Peariso reveals how the 'put-on'--the signature activist performance of the radical left--ended up becoming a valuable American political practice, one that continues to influence contemporary radicals such as Occupy Wall Street"--Publisher's website.

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