Conversations on art and performance /

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Imprint:Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c1999.
Description:xiv, 503 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:PAJ books
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3694588
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Other authors / contributors:Marranca, Bonnie.
Dasgupta, Gautam, 1949-
ISBN:0801859247 (alk. paper)
0801859255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Aural History
  • Art and Its Audience
  • Art and Consciousness
  • Art and the Imagery of Extinction
  • Theatre in America
  • The Play of Thought
  • The Politics of Reception
  • Radicalizing the Classics
  • Art in the Culture
  • The Modernism/Postmodernism Debate
  • Criticism, Culture, and Performance
  • Interpretation and the Work of Art
  • Writers and Composers
  • The Theatre of History
  • Composing for the Opera
  • Figure of Speech
  • Poet in the Theatre
  • The American Playwright
  • Playwrights Making Movies
  • Music and Theatre
  • The Playwright as Director
  • Theatre and the Ridiculous
  • Bodies of Work
  • The Politics of Representation
  • Performance and the Body
  • Personal History
  • Making Dances
  • The Mind of Dance
  • Liminal Performance
  • Environmental Theatre
  • Acting and Nonacting
  • Reminiscences of a Dance Critic
  • A Lifetime of Dance
  • La MaMa and the American Theatre
  • The Search for a Universal Grammar
  • Interculturalism and Performance
  • Working with Puppets
  • United States
  • Performance Strategies
  • The Real Charles Atlas