Admirably lucid ... a significant challenge to much scholarship on this crucial decade. -- T. V. Reed, author of The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle An important piece of intellectual history, art history synthesis, or reinterpretation of aspects of 1960s politicized performance. Peariso's argument is fresh and original. -- Bradford Martin, author of Theater Is in the Street: Politics and Performance in Sixties America
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Stereotypes, Opposition, and “the Sixties”
1. Monkey Theater
2. “Watch Out for Pigs in Queen’s Clothing”: Camp and the Image of
Radical Sexuality
3. “Erect . . . Strong . . . Resilient and Firm”: Eldridge Cleaver
and the Performance of “Black” Liberation
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Craig J. Peariso is assistant professor of art history at Boise State University.
"Craig J. Peariso’s work challenges traditional narratives
regarding some of North America’s most significant political
iconoclasts of the 1960s."
*TDR: The Drama Review*
"Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate
and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about
what to do when those efforts stall."
*Journal of American History*
"This intriguing book presents a revisionist revaluation of the
more problematic radical edges of political performance art in the
United States of the mid-to-late 1960s. . . . Peariso has
successfully shown that awkward decade was up for it in many
compelling ways. . . . [Radical Theatrics] launches a
sophisticatedly argued call for newly creating politico-aesthetic
styles of ‘anti-representational’ performance."
*Studies in Theatre and Performance*
"Peariso’s study of ‘failed’ sixties radicalism is an important
contribution to our growing understanding of the complexities of
radicalism in the postmodern, where performance is everywhere and
manifold."
*Labour / Le Travail*
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