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Marina Abramovic
Mary Richards
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral... [more]
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Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Y. Bennett
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Educational material
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Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though,... [more]
$14.99
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Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Marina Abramovic
Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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A celebrated performance artist details her life, from her dark childhood in postwar Yugoslavia and her formative relationships... [more]
$24.99
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Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers...
Bree Hadley
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Disability: social aspects
Hardback
In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices... [more]
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Histories and Practices of Live Art
Deirdre Heddon, Jennie Klein
Art & Architecture; Performance art; Theatre Studies
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In this dynamic collection a team of experts map the development of Live Art culturally, thematically and historically. Supported... [more]
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Jerzy Grotowski
James Slowiak, Jairo Cuesta
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Acting techniques; Theatre direction & production
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Outlining Jerzy Grotowski's contributions to 20th century performance, this book demonstrates his significance and how his... [more]
Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
Antony Hegarty
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Theatre Studies
Hardback
Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis,... [more]
Sophie Whettnall (at) Work
Marina Abramovic, Carine Fol, Scott Samuelson, Sophie Whettnall
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
Paperback
This unconventional publication explores the process of making art through the work and studio practice of Sophie Whettnall... [more]
What is Scenography?
Pamela Howard
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
Expands on the author's holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and... [more]
Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Playmakers and their Strategies...
Nadia Therese van Pelt (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
Paperback
Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe moves away from the customary conceptual framework that artificially separates `medieval'... [more]
A Dictionary of the American Avant-Gardes
Richard Kostelanetz
The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian... [more]
Georg Buchner's Woyzeck
Karoline Gritzner
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback
'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- Woyzeck Georg Buchner's Woyzeck was left unfinished at... [more]
Time and Performer Training
Mark Evans, Konstantinos Thomaidis (Exeter University, UK), Libby Worth (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Performance art; Acting techniques; Cultural studies
Paperback
Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and... [more]
How and Why We Teach Shakespeare: College Teachers and Directors Share How...
Sidney Homan
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Teaching skills & techniques
Hardback
In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences... [more]
$231.00
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The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation...
Brian Kulick
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And... [more]
Beyond Spain's Borders: Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters...
Maria Cristina Quintero, Anne J. Cruz
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Sex & sexuality, sex manuals
Paperback
The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that... [more]
What is Scenography?
Pamela Howard
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
Expands on the author's holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and... [more]
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics
Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Political campaigning & advertising
Hardback
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most... [more]
Choreographing Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader
Mark Franko
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance
Paperback
Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment.... [more]
A Dictionary of the American Avant-Gardes
Richard Kostelanetz
The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian... [more]
Sharon Hayes
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jeannine Tang, Lanka Tattersall
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs
Paperback
The first comprehensive publication to capture Hayes's unique blend of performance and social engagement which has been at... [more]
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death: Tadeusz Kantor...
Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis
Performance art; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
Hardback
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death shines a spotlight on what theater, and especially tragedy, tells... [more]
Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre...
Tony Fisher, Eve Katsouraki
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action... [more]
The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation...
Brian Kulick
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And... [more]
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick...
Norman S. Poser (Brooklyn Law School, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century... [more]
