Performance

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773365Author Shaun GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon.This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski's essential question: "How does the actor 'touch that which is...

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735997711Author Kellita MaloofFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Kellita MaloofPublisher Kellita MaloofWeight(grams) 152g

In !Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps...

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450066Author David VelascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 420g

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith's work offers critical strategies for rethinking art's histories after 1960...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095206Author Guy CoolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633851610Author Edward BanchsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Word Association PublishersPublisher Word Association PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248530Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 520g

Phil Smith (Crabman/Mythogeography) and Tony Whitehead join forces with master photographer John Schott to lead readers on a `virtual' journey to explore difference and change on their way to an unknown destination. "What is most real is what you...

A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of...

Would you believe that you could ask a full-grown man to hold a penny for you and then tell him to drop it and finds he can't, hard as he may try? In what is undoubtedly the most original magic book of our time, John Fisher shows the reader how, with...

Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960881021Author Kile OzierFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Rivershore PressPublisher Rivershore PressWeight(grams) 395g

Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary...

Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute's Pacific Standard Time initiative - a series of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991558520Author Constance DejongFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620236093Author Todd MuffattiFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Atlantic Publishing GroupPublisher Atlantic Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Histories of Performance Documentation traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events. From hybrid and interactive arts, to games and virtual...

Endless Shout asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, where five...

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a...

[Economy edition] This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism 'tactics' plus the thinking...

This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to this...

"Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." -Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an...

Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence. Addressing...

An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689490Author Tai ShaniFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical...

Examines representations of Robert Burns and his work in a wide range of performance modes Examination of representation of Robert Burns and his work in a wide range of performance modes Analysis of 'Robert Burns' as a cultural performance rising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800649132Author Paul FarmerFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 717g

What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for...

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941753019Author Micah SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Inventory Press LLCPublisher Inventory Press LLCWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304571Author Christopher WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999045463Author Rae A StonehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Live for Excellence ProductionsPublisher Live for Excellence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800649125Author Paul FarmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 234mm...