Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential directors as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Grotowski. Known in the United States primarily for his visually stunning productions, he is also highly regarded throughout Europe for his theoretically adventurous writings. Michal Kobialka, whom Kantor authorized to translate his work, provides us with the first collection of Kantor's essays in English, together with his analysis of the corpus of Kantor's work, both written and staged.
By:
Tadeusz Kantor
Edited by:
Michael Kobialka
Translated by:
Michael Kobialka
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 154mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780520084230
ISBN 10: 0520084233
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 02 August 1993
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE PART I FURTHER ON, NOTHING ... Chronology A. A SELECTION oF TADEUSZ KANTOR'S ESSAYS AND MANIFESTOS My Work-My Journey (Excerpts) (1988) Credo (1942-44) The Autonomous Theatre (1956/63) The Informel Theatre (1961) The Informel Theatre: Definitions (Undated) The Zero Theatre (1963) Annexed Reality (1963) Emballages (1957-65) Theatre Happening (1967) The Impossible Theatre (1969-73) The Theatre of Death (1975) Reality of the Lowest Rank (1980) The Work of Art and the Process (1976) The Situation of an Artist (1977) Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear? (Cricotage) (1978) New Theatrical S p a c e . Where F i c t i o n Appears (1980) The Room. Maybe a New Phase (1980) The Infamous Transition from the World of the Dead into the World of the Living: Fiction and Reality (1980) Prison (1985) Refiection(1985) Memory (1988) The Real ''I"" (1988) To Save from Oblivion (1988) Silent Night (Cricotage) (1990) A Painting (1990) From the Beginning, in My Credo Was ... (1990) B. THE MILANO LESSONS (1986) Foreword Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lessons 8, 9, 10, and 11 Lesson 12 PART 2 THE QUEST FOR THE SELF/ OTHER: A CRITICAL STUDY OF TADEUSZ KANTOR'S THEATRE The Quest for the Self: Thresholds and Transformations The Quest for the Other: Space/Memory Found Reality NOTES WRITINGS BY TADEUSZ KANTOR SELECTED WRITINGS ABOUT TADEUSZ KANTOR, CRICOT 2 THEATRE, AND THEIR PRODUCTIONS INDEX"
Michal Kobialka is a McKnight-Land Grant Professor of Theatre at the University of Minnesota.
Reviews for A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990
Without a doubt Kobialka's work on Kantor is definitive. He explores every aspect of Kantor's search for a truer reality and leads the reader through the dense thicket of Kantor's explorations. Kobialka's prose is lucid, even though his subject is complex and at times almost ethereal. To those who have not seen a Kantor production, no better guide can be found than Kobialka's penetrating and exhaustive study. -- World Literature Today
