Philology and Performing Arts

Philology and Performing Arts
Title Philology and Performing Arts PDF eBook
Author Mattia Cavagna
Publisher Presses universitaires de Louvain
Pages 326
Release 2014-10-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 2875583204

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This volume invites to bridge the traditional gap between the author and the scribes, which means between the "original text" and the “copies” in order deal with more complex situations, in which the performer, the screenwriter, or the director...

Professing Performance

Professing Performance
Title Professing Performance PDF eBook
Author Shannon Jackson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 276
Release 2004-04-08
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521656054

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Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is intriguing and complex. By examining the history of theatre studies and related institutions and by comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, Professing Performance offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context.

Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire

Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire
Title Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire PDF eBook
Author Katherine M. D. Dunbabin
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Art and society
ISBN 9780801454059

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Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in population and language. A wide and varied range of entertainment was available to a Roman audience: the traditional festivals with their athletic contests and dramatic performances, pantomime and mime, the chariot races of the circus, and the gladiatorial shows and wild beast hunts of the arena. In Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire, which is richly illustrated in color throughout, Katherine M. D. Dunbabin emphasizes the visual evidence for these events. Images of spectacle appear in a wide range of artistic media, from the mosaics and paintings that decorated wealthy private houses to the sculpture of tomb monuments, and from luxury objects such as silver tableware to more humble ceramic lamps and pottery vessels. Dunbabin places the information derived from this visual material into the wider context provided by the written sources, both literary and epigraphic. This allows us to understand the functions that these images served in the social rituals of public and domestic life. By explicating both the social and cultural role of the spectacles themselves and the nature of their representation in art, Dunbabin provides a comprehensive portrait of the popular culture of the period.

Art Subjects

Art Subjects
Title Art Subjects PDF eBook
Author Howard Singerman
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 310
Release 1999-03-31
Genre Art
ISBN 9780520215023

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"Few sites within the university open a richer critical reflection than that of the M.F.A., with its complex crossing of professionalism, theory, humanistic knowledge, and the absolute exposure of practice. Howard Singerman's Art Subjects does a magnificent job of both laying out our current crises, letting us see the shards of past practices embedded in them, and of demonstrating—rendering urgent and discussable—what it now means either to assume or award the name of the artist."—Stephen Melville, author of Seams, editor of Vision and Textuality "Art Subjects is a must read for anyone interested in both the education and status of the visual artist in America. With careful attention to detail and nuance, Singerman presents a compelling picture of the peculiarly institutional myth of the creative artist as an untaught and unteachable being singularly well adapted to earn a tenure position at a major research university. A fascinating study, thoroughly researched yet oddly, and movingly, personal."—Thomas Lawson, Dean, Art School, CalArts

The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor

The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor
Title The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 421
Release
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ISBN 0857285165

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor

The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor
Title The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor PDF eBook
Author Magda Romanska
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 420
Release 2012-12-15
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0857285262

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Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.

Catalogue of the Iowa State Library

Catalogue of the Iowa State Library
Title Catalogue of the Iowa State Library PDF eBook
Author State Library of Iowa
Publisher
Pages 808
Release 1889
Genre
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