[PDF] Performance Anthology eBook

Author : Carl E. Loeffler
Publisher : Last Gasp
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780867193664

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Performance art is a major contemporary art form and California is recognized internationally as a pivotal area for innovative performance art activity. This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1989. The anthology provides a chronicle of the literature of artists' publications, art journals, major books, and catalogues; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; and photographs illustrating major works by California artists. Through the documentation of the literature, a framework is established of the artists, events, organizations and spaces that have been instrumental in launching and sustaining the performance art scene in California.

Author : Carl E. Loeffler
Publisher : Steve Parish
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN :

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California occupies a leading role in the development and practice of performance as a contemporary form of visual art. Performance anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of the California performance activity which flourished throughout the decade of the seventies. Included in this anthology are a chronological bibliography of major books, journal essays and reviews, artists' books, catalogues, and marginal works; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; photographs illustrating major performance works by California artists.--Back cover.

Author : Jo Bonney
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Extreme Exposure presents extensive excerpts from the works of more than 50 solo writer/performers, along with prefatory notes to each extract.

Author : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136189998

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Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. More than thirty essays explore the myriad forms this most public of performances can take: * agit-prop * invisible theatre * demonstrations and rallies * direct action * puppetry * parades and pageants * performance art * guerrilla theatre * circuses These essays look at performaces in Europe, Africa, China, India and both the Americas. They describe engagement with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia, to name only a few. Introduced by editor Jan Cohen-Cruz, the essays are organized into thematic sections: Agitating; Witnessing; Involving; Imagining; and Popularizing. Radical Street Performance is an inspiring testimony to this international performance phenomenon, and an invaluable record of a form of theatre which continues to flourish in a televisual age.

Author : Dorita Hannah
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Performance art
ISBN : 8763507846

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Explores the speculative and projective acts of designing performance and performing design. This work offers a range of performative expressions across disciplines, where design artefacts - objects, gestures, images, occasions and environments - are aligned to performance through notions of embodiment, action and event.

Author : Tanya Mars
Publisher : YYZ Books
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performance art
ISBN : 0920397840

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"This definitive anthology focuses on the 70s and 80s--a time when women made a big and noisy impact on society -- and provides readers with insight into the profound effects that feminism and women's work have had on contemporary culture. Full of sass and insight, this essential collection is part survey, part critical discourse, and part reference book."--Pub. desc.

Author : Diana Taylor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Latin American drama
ISBN : 0472050273

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Stages of Conflict brings together an array of dramatic texts, tracing the intersection of theater and social and political life in the Americas over the past five centuries. Historical pieces from the sixteenth century to the present highlight the encounter between indigenous tradition and colonialism, while contributions from modern playwrights such as Virgilio Pinero, Jose Triana, and Denise Stolkos take on the tumultuous political and social upheavals of the past century. The editors have added critical commentary on the origins of each play, affording scholars and students of theater, performance studies, and Latin American studies the opportunity to view the history of a continent through its rich and diverse theatrical traditions.--from publisher's statement.

Author : David Fenwick Wilson
Publisher : New York : Schirmer Books ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Music of the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of musical style and compositional technique from early plainchant to the flourishing of fourteenth-century polyphony.--From publisher description.

Author : Frieder Lang
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300068054

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Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. Lang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of authenticity in performance.

Author : Henry Bial
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 9780415302418

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The Performance Studies Reader is a lively and much-needed anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. The collection is designed as a companion to Richard Schechner's popular Performance Studies: an Introduction (Routledge, 2002), but is also ideal as a stand-alone text. Henry Bial collects together key critical pieces from the field, referred to as 'suggested readings' in Performance Studies: an Introduction. He also broadens the discussion with additional selections. The structure and themes of the Reader closely follow those of Schechner's companion textbook. The articles in each section focus particularly on three primary areas in performance studies, theatre, anthropology and sociology/cultural studies.