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Author | : John Erlanger Booth |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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In this spirited, richly anecdotal book, Booth describes what today's critics of music, art, and theater actually do; what powers they have; their typical strengths and weaknesses; the critical strategies unique to music, theater, the electronic media, and the so-called minority arts; and the expertise and character of those who excel as critics. He includes striking, often humorous, comments and insights by famous critics, artists, and performers. ISBN 0-231-07460-3: $27.95.
Author | : John E. Booth |
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Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : M. Reason |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2006-09-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230598560 |
The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies. Focusing on contemporary performance practice and with emphasis on the transformative impact of video, photography and writing, this book explores the ideological, practical, and representational implications of knowing performance through its documentations.
Author | : Maggie Nelson |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393343146 |
"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.
Author | : Audrey C. Denes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
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Author | : Linda Montano |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520210220 |
This work contains interviews with performance artists who talk about how certain childhood experiences have influenced and resurfaced in their work as an adult. The discussions focus on the relationship between art and life.
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Total Pages | : 2456 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : American literature |
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A world list of books in the English language.
Author | : Bertie Ferdman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1350057584 |
The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction. This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.
Author | : Sue-Ellen Case |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1991-05-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1587290340 |
Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
Author | : David Román |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2005-11-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822387441 |
Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David Román challenges the belief that theatre, dance, and live music are marginal art forms in the United States. He describes the crucial role that the performing arts play in local, regional, and national communities, emphasizing the power of live performance, particularly its immediacy and capacity to create a dialogue between artists and audiences. Román draws attention to the ways that the performing arts provide unique perspectives on many of the most pressing concerns within American studies: questions about history and politics, citizenship and society, and culture and nation. The performances that Román analyzes range from localized community-based arts events to full-scale Broadway productions and from the controversial works of established artists such as Tony Kushner to those of emerging artists. Román considers dances produced by the choreographers Bill T. Jones and Neil Greenberg in the mid-1990s as new aids treatments became available and the aids crisis was reconfigured; a production of the Asian American playwright Chay Yew’s A Beautiful Country in a high-school auditorium in Los Angeles’s Chinatown; and Latino performer John Leguizamo’s one-man Broadway show Freak. He examines the revival of theatrical legacies by female impersonators and the resurgence of cabaret in New York City. Román also looks at how the performing arts have responded to 9/11, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and the second war in Iraq. Including more than eighty illustrations, Performance in America highlights the dynamic relationships among performance, history, and contemporary culture through which the past is revisited and the future reimagined.