Performance art Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Ritual Performance and the Senses
Book SynopsisRitual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among participants.Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied religious practice, ranging from philosophical discussions of belief to explorations of the biological processes taking place in the brain itself. Case studies range from miracles and visionary activity in Catholic Malta to meditative practices in theatrical performance and include three pilgrimage sites: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the festival of Ramlila in Ramnagar, India and the mountain shriTrade Review"Bull and Mitchell provide a truly thought-provoking collection of essays by renowned authors widely influential in the fields of performance studies, sensory/sound studies, and cognitive neuroscience/neurophysics. It is a must-read for all interested in ritual plain and simple as well as for all interested in the complex interplay of cognition, senses, and performance. - Reading Religion This is an excellent collection of articles that are both theoretically and empirically rich and offer innovative approaches to long-standing concepts. - Religion and Society: Advances in Research The book is highly recommendable to anthropologists working on all fields ... It provides a productive entry into debates that will probably shape the future of our discipline as it moves beyond the constraints of a 'science of culture'. - Anthropos [This] book has been carefully curated to ensure that the points of interest ... speak to readers from across the fields of performance studies, anthropology, neuroanthropology and beyond. - HARTS & Minds"Table of ContentsIntroductionJon P. Mitchell and Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UKRitual Action Shapes Our Brains: an Essay in NeuroanthropologyRobert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, GermanyPlace-making in the 'Holy of Holies': the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, JerusalemTrevor Marchand, School of Oriental and African Studies, UKThe Importance of Repetition: Ritual as Extension of MindGreg Downey, Macquarie University, AustraliaDivine Intervention: Ontology, Cognition and Performance in Maltese Visionary PhenomenaJon P. Mitchell, University of Sussex, UKMaking 'Sense' in Embodied/Enactive Modes of Actor Training and PerformancePhilip Zarrili, University of Exeter, UKRamlila and SpaceRichard Schechner, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USAExploring the Andean Sensory Model: Knowledge, Memory and the Experience of PilgrimageZoila Mendoza, University of California, Davis, USASensation and TransmissionDavid Howes, Concordia University, CanadaAfterwordSarah Pink, Loughborough University, UKBibliographyIndex
£39.99
Gordon and Breach Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind
Book SynopsisPlautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America's foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of Plautus' ancient drama. In addition to the original detailed studies of six of the dramatists's plays, the methodology of performance criticism, the use of conventions, and the nature of comic heroism in Plautus, this edition includes new studies on:* the induction into the world of the play* the scripted imitation of improvisation* Plautus's comments on his previous work* the nature of 'tragicomedy'.
£102.00
Cambridge University Press Shared Listenings
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£17.00
Cambridge University Press Shared Listenings
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£47.49
Cambridge University Press Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres
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£47.49
Cambridge University Press Playwriting Dramaturgy and Space
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£47.49
Cambridge University Press Theatricality Playtexts and Society
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£17.00
Cambridge University Press Theatricality Playtexts and Society
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Cambridge University Press Transdisciplinary Shakespeare Pedagogy
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£17.00
Cambridge University Press Performing Urban Ecologies
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£52.25
Cambridge University Press Translating Hisstories
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£52.25
Cambridge University Press John Cage and David Tudor Correspondence On Interpretation And Performance Music since 1900
Book SynopsisMartin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect John Cage's complete correspondence with his closest collaborator, the pianist David Tudor. Iddon tackles the question of how much creative flexibility Tudor was granted when performing Cage's notorious indeterminate and chance-guided works, from Music of Changes to Variations II.Trade Review'… one is impressed by both Tudor's commitment and Iddon's persistence … Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above; general readers.' J. Behrens, ChoiceTable of Contents1. The music of chance; 2. Correspondence, 1951–3; 3. Determining the determinate; 4. Determining the indeterminate; 5. Correspondence, 1958–62; 6. (In)determining the indeterminate; 7. Correspondence, 1965–89; 8. 'Late' realizations; 9. Praxis and poiesis in indeterminate music.
£25.64
HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Host a Viking Funeral
Book SynopsisAn inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship.Trade Review“Wise, funny, and surprisingly poignant, this book teaches us the most important lesson there is: how to be a better human being.” — Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author of Dream Big and Live in Grace “A hilarious, wise, and inspiring roadmap for life. Kyle Scheele bravely bares his own vulnerabilities to show us that what we reject most in ourselves are often the very things that connect us all as humans.” — Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country “With humor, heart, and a whole lot of cardboard, Kyle Scheele delivers a blast of creative inspiration. Here we have something truly special - a reminder that we each already have the materials needed to live a life packed with beauty and joy.” — Brad Montague, New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Circles All Around Us “Scheele has written a love letter to those of us who struggle through the painful and seemingly endless process of moving on. Scheele gave me permission to celebrate the journey, with its highs and lows, and start a new adventure with nothing left to carry but the hope of what lies ahead.” — Hugh Weber, CEO of The Great Discontent "This book reads like it was written by someone who is 100 years old because Kyle has packed so much life into such a short time frame. I can't wait to see what you do after you read this manifesto for the beauty of crazy ideas." — Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Soundtracks: the Surprising Solution to Overthinking “'No regrets’ is a cliché for a reason: we hate facing our shortcomings! I didn’t think it was possible, but Kyle Scheele makes this important inner work not just easy, but hilarious! The sugary goodness of his storytelling makes this medicine an actual treat.” — Andy J. Pizza, host of Creative Pep Talk podcast “Like John Baldessari, who decided to cremate all his ‘bad art’ and start over, cardboard master and motivational speaker Kyle Scheele shows readers that they really can “burn it all down.” Get this book so you can learn to set your old life on fire before it burns you out.” — Austin Kleon, New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist
£18.04
MIT Press Ltd Move Choreographing You Art and Dance Since the
Book SynopsisHow visual art has been enriched by dance, and dance has been shaped by art, in unprecedented and exciting ways for the past fifty years.Move. Choreographing You explores the interaction between visual art and dance since the 1960s. This beautifully illustrated book, published in connection with a major exhibition, focuses on visual artists and choreographers who create sculptures and installations that direct the movements of audiences—making them dancers and active participants. Move shows that choreography is not merely about the notation of movement on paper or in film but about the ways the body inhabits sculpture and installations.The book documents some of the diverse but interconnected ways that visual art and choreography have come together over the past fifty years. Among the artists whose work helped to forge the art-dance connection are Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Lygia Clark, Bruce Nauman, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Franz West, Mike Kelley, Isaac J
£24.30
Thames & Hudson Ltd Performance Now
Book SynopsisPerformance Now charts the development of performance by visual artists across six continents since the turn of the 21st century. It reveals how live art, so integral to the history of art in the 20th century, has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. Renowned authority RoseLee Goldberg discusses the key themes in performance art practice, from beauty, global citizenship and political activism to performance's intersection with film and technology, dance, theatre and architecture. Each chapter is followed by illustrated profiles of the world's best-known performance artists, accompanied by extended captions that assess the importance of specific works to the practice of international performance art. The book concludes with an extensive reference section. Providing a visually exciting and stimulating overview of this most varied art form, Performance Now is the go-to reference for artists, art students and historians asTrade Review'RoseLee Goldberg’s writings on Performance as an art and activity have been THE necessary texts that inform our discovery and understanding of this complexly critical yet seductively available cultural practice. Performance Now continues to follow this dynamic live art into the 21st century with an expansiveness and rigor that has made Goldberg’s writings an indispensable chronicling of both art and its time' - Barbara Kruger'An extensive survey of the most ground-breaking performance artists living and working today' - Dazed & Confused'Goldberg’s specificity of language means that transitions between crisp descriptions and concise analyses of contexts are consistently thought-provoking' - frieze'This book shows how Performance Art has infected Visual Art, World Citizenship, Politics, Choreography, Theatre and Architecture. Performance Art is a virus that doesn’t destroy, but gives oxygen and life … RoseLee Goldberg, you gave and give us an insight into what Performance Art has been, how it has developed and where it is at this moment. Thanks for this precious gift to all of us' - Ivo van Hove, Theatre DirectorTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Performance as Visual Art • 2. World Citizenship: Performance as a Global Language • 3. Radical Action: On Performance and Politics • 4. Dance After Choreography • 5. Off stage: New Theatre • 6. Performing Architecture
£32.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pickled Punks and Girlie Shows A Life Spent on
Book SynopsisStep down a little closer; you don''t want to miss a thing. Join fifty-year sideshow veteran, Rick West, on a strange and wonderful trip through behind-the-scenes tales of his life as a showman. The strange, the bizarre, the unusual comprise this engaging memoir bursting at the seams with rare images of two-headed cows, Bigfoot creatures, pickled punks, showgirls, humongous hogs, 3,500-pound steers, and much, much more. From attending the Ozark Empire Fair at age five to revealing the true story behind Frank Hansen''s infamous Minnesota Iceman, the author takes the reader into the world of America''s sideshows and midway grind shows. It''s all here; it''s all on the inside. See it now or miss it forever. It''s showtime!
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd New York Burlesque Photographs by Roy Kemp
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Subway Beats Celebrating New York City Buskers
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£17.09
Wesleyan University Press Transtraterrestrial
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£31.45
University of New Orleans Press Off the Grid: Art Practices and Public Space
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£32.78
Broad Book Group It Happened at the Palace
Book SynopsisPenned by Mr. Broadway, Stewart F. Lane, It Happened at The Palace is your all-access pass to the epic saga of one of the most famous theatres in the world.From its opulent Vaudeville roots to its star-studded Broadway nights, the Palace Theatre has been a beacon of entertainment, surviving the ebb and flow of time and taste. Lane, with his unparalleled expertise in theatrical productions, guides you through the grandeur and the grit of the theatre''s past, the ambitious renovation that restored its former glory, and its
£48.75
Triarchy Press Ways to Wander the Gallery: 2018
Book Synopsis25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics. The book asks you to reconsider your walked relationship with art through the concept of the Wander Score. How playful and embodied can our wandering be in spaces that often make our feet ache?
£16.43
Triarchy Press Suomenlinna Gropius: Two Contemplations on
Book SynopsisHow can we dance here - so the aliveness of everything past and present can surface and shimmer? Paula Kramer's beautiful, evocative and touching 'contemplations' take us on a double journey that starts with Site (one in Helsinki, one in Berlin), moves to Practice and concludes in Performance. Based on a 3-year site-based research project (a post-doc at Uniarts Helsinki's Centre for Artistic Research) the book explores her embodied research into intermateriality. It addresses the question that guided her research: how does movement and choreography emerge in collaboration with site? More specifically: how do bodies, materials, sites, organisms, history, tuning, training, phenomena, events and the weather intermingle and speak, bringing forth what we later might call movement, dance or choreography? The two sites are Lanskari - the wildest and least populated of Helsinki's Suomenlinna islands - and Martin-Gropius-Bau on Berlin's Sudplatz, a neighbour of the Berlin Wall, of Berlin's House of Representatives and former home of the first Stasi, and of the former SS and Gestapo headquarters. The book explores narration, poetry and theory born out of specific experiences of moving-dancing, being, eating, choreographing, performing, in and with the two sites. The author speaks alongside others - experts in history, geology, performance - and invites us to see and experience sites, dance and movement differently.Table of ContentsIntroduction Site: SUOMENLINNA - On Your Rocks I Lie The Slippery Rocks of Suomenlinna / Bjoern Kroeger Islands in Time / Annette Arlander Practice: SUOMENLINNA - Practising Movement The Feather / Annette Arlander Performance: SUOMENLINNA - On the Surface of Time Placement Upon The Surface of Time / Kira O'Reilly IF YOU SAY- a poetic contemplation STATE OF MATTER - Assembled memories of not being an audience / Jagna Anderson This is - not a performance :Performance GROPIUS - Practising Movement :Practice Sudplatz: 1910, 1936, 1954, 1984, and today, 2020 / Ulrich Tempel GROPIUS - You Are My Layering :Site Introduction
£24.17
Sternberg Press Magda Stawarska
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£12.35
Square Halo Books It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God
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£18.99
Bohlau Verlag Medialisierte Korper: Performances Und Aktionen
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£55.78
Harrassowitz Verlag Über die UnMöglichkeit der Katharsis im zeitgenössischen Drama und Theater
£26.10
Dietrich Reimer Kunst Sehen Ist Sich Selbst Sehen: Christian
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£37.42
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Buhne Im Bauhaus
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