{"product_id":"kantor-a-biography-9781032993409","title":"Kantor A Biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKantor: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first comprehensive English-language artistic biography of the Polish visual artist, avant-garde innovator and theatre practitioner Tadeusz Kantor (1915â1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book traces Kantorâs creative trajectory from clandestine wartime performances to the international acclaim of the Cricot 2 theatre, examining his achievements across painting, performance, happenings and experimental theatre. Like Kantorâs own works, the study synthesises the personal and the historical. His radical aesthetic experimentation articulated loss, survival and the construction of memory, most notably in The Theatre of Death. It reflected twentieth-century Central Europeâs turbulent history of war, occupation, genocide, totalitarianism and democratic revival. Drawing on previously unknown archival sources, the biography offers new insights into Kantorâs life and artistic practice. It traces his interactions with international avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements and highlights the significance of his theoretical writings and stage work for world theatre, as well as lesser-known aspects of his teaching and set design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntegrating biography, art history, and performance studies, \u003ci\u003eKantor: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to scholars and students of theatre, visual art, and cultural history, as well as readers around the world interested in twentieth-century artistic pioneers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515579326807,"sku":"9781032993409","price":39.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kantor-a-biography-9781032993409","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}