"It was the Circus, and I was the Clown": Emma Goldman, Popular and Avant-garde Cultures of American Modernity, and the Politics of (self) Performance
Title | "It was the Circus, and I was the Clown": Emma Goldman, Popular and Avant-garde Cultures of American Modernity, and the Politics of (self) Performance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Anarchism |
ISBN |
Dissertation Abstracts International
Title | Dissertation Abstracts International PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2009-09 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
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Circus and the Avant-Gardes
Title | Circus and the Avant-Gardes PDF eBook |
Author | Anna-Sophie Jürgens |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2022-03-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000552365 |
This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This book aims to produce a better sense of the artistic work and cultural achievements that have emerged from the interplay of circus and avant-garde artists and projects, and to clarify both their transhistorical and trans-medial presence, and their scope for interdisciplinary expansion. Across 14 chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as circus, theatre and performance studies, art, media studies, film and cultural history – some of which are written together with performers and circus practitioners, the book examines to what extent circus and avant-garde connections contribute to a better understanding of early 20th century artistic movements and their enduring legacy, of the history of popular entertainment, and the cultural relevance of circus arts. Circus and the Avant-Gardes elucidates how the realm of the circus as a model, or rather a blueprint for modernist experiment, innovation and (re)negotiation of bodies, has become fully integrated in our ways of perceiving avant-gardes today. The book does not only map the significance of circus/avant-garde phenomena for the past, but, through an exploration of their contemporary actualisations (in different media), also carves out their achievements, relevance, and impact, both cultural and aesthetic, on the present time.
Édith Piaf
Title | Édith Piaf PDF eBook |
Author | David Looseley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1781382573 |
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Title | Corcoran Gallery of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Publisher | Lucia Marquand |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN | 9781555953614 |
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Contemporary Anarchist Studies
Title | Contemporary Anarchist Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Amster |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2009-02-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134026439 |
This book highlights the recent rise in interest in anarchist theory and practice attempting to bridge the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist studies in the academia. Bringing together some of the most prominent voices in contemporary anarchism in the academy, it includes pieces written on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future.
Pantomime
Title | Pantomime PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Toepfer |
Publisher | Vosuri Media |
Pages | 1320 |
Release | 2019-08-19 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1733249737 |
This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.