An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future

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An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future. / Bolt Rasmussen, Mikkel.

Crisis and Communitas : Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics. ed. / Doroto Sajewska; Malgorzata Sugiera. London : Routledge, 2023. p. 206-220.

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Harvard

Bolt Rasmussen, M 2023, An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future. in D Sajewska & M Sugiera (eds), Crisis and Communitas : Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics. Routledge, London, pp. 206-220. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003231097-15

APA

Bolt Rasmussen, M. (2023). An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future. In D. Sajewska, & M. Sugiera (Eds.), Crisis and Communitas : Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics (pp. 206-220). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003231097-15

Vancouver

Bolt Rasmussen M. An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future. In Sajewska D, Sugiera M, editors, Crisis and Communitas : Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics. London: Routledge. 2023. p. 206-220 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003231097-15

Author

Bolt Rasmussen, Mikkel. / An Avant-Garde with Its Back to the Future. Crisis and Communitas : Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics. editor / Doroto Sajewska ; Malgorzata Sugiera. London : Routledge, 2023. pp. 206-220

Bibtex

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