The Very Thought Of Herbert Blau

Author : Clark Lunberry,Joseph Roach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472130924

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The Very Thought of Herbert Blau by Clark Lunberry,Joseph Roach Pdf

Herbert Blau (1926–2013) was the most influential theater theorist, practitioner, and educator of his generation. He was the leading American interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett and as a director was instrumental in introducing works of the European avant-garde to American audiences. He was also one of the most far-reaching and thoughtful American theorists of theater and performance, and author of influential books such as The Dubious Spectacle, The Audience, and Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point. In The Very Thought of Herbert Blau, distinguished artists and scholars offer reflections on what made Blau's contributions so visionary, transformative, and unforgettable, and why his ideas endure in both seminar rooms and studios. The contributors, including Lee Breuer, Sue-Ellen Case, Gautam Dasgupta, Elin Diamond, S. E. Gontarski, Linda Gregerson, Martin Harries, Bill Irwin, Julia Jarcho, Anthony Kubiak, Daniel Listoe, Clark Lunberry, Bonnie Marranca, Peggy Phelan, Joseph Roach, Richard Schechner, Morton Subotnick, Julie Taymor, and Gregory Whitehead, respond to Blau's fierce and polymorphous intellect, his relentless drive and determination, and his audacity, his authority, to think, as he frequently insisted, "at the very nerve ends of thought."

Author : Herbert Blau
Publisher : New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015001723322

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Blooded Thought by Herbert Blau Pdf

Analyzes the nature of drama and performance, linking contemporary thinking in theatrical and literary theory, politics and the sciences. Blau's essays illuminate crucial issues in today's theatre: the place of language and the dramatization of thought.

Author : Herbert Blau
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472051519

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Reality Principles by Herbert Blau Pdf

DIVA panoramic view of how we think about life and the imitation of life on stage/div

Author : Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0472068865

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Critical Theory and Performance by Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach Pdf

Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance

Author : Herbert Blau
Publisher : Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4379397

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Take Up the Bodies by Herbert Blau Pdf

Author : Herbert Blau
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816638128

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The Dubious Spectacle by Herbert Blau Pdf

Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau-his directing, writing, and criticism-has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. Blau's struggle to bring a critical intelligence to the American stage goes back half a century, to the quiescent postwar years (which he has eloquently described in The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto). His innovations in performance began with early productions of now-canonical plays that were hardly known at that time (works by Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, Duerrenmatt, and others). His experience is as distinctive as his versatile habits of mind and conceptual urgency of style. If the impossible takes a little time (as the title of one essay states), Blau's struggle now continues in a theoretical vein. Performance-and his own compelling writing- has moved across other genres and disciplines into fashion, politics, sexuality, and theory. His diversity of thought is demonstrated here in commentaries about the newer modes of performance (including conceptual and body art), various American playwrights, Renaissance drama, new music and theater, voice, the senses and the baroque, and the photographic image. As the essays reflect upon each other, a kind of cultural history, with inflections of autobiography, develops-which is what readers of Blau's previous books have come to expect.

Author : Herbert Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015017904502

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The Audience by Herbert Blau Pdf

Author : Herbert Blau
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Design
ISBN : 0253335876

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Nothing in Itself by Herbert Blau Pdf

What Herbert Blau suggests, in Nothing in Itself, is that fashion itself, today, has been anticipating and redefining, in the dazzle on the runway, or even in ready-to-wear, the terms in which it is critiqued, while sometimes giving the impression that it is inseparable from critique; in short, there is little to be said of fashion that is not somehow visible in fashion, though even in the mainstream we may call it antifashion. Which is all the more reason to look at the clothes. The book does so copiously, with a fastidious eye to style, as if nothing could be said of a garment, no appropriate fabric of thought, without the felt sensation.

Author : Anthony Kubiak
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0472068113

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Agitated States by Anthony Kubiak Pdf

American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

Author : Joseph R. Roach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0472082442

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The Player's Passion by Joseph R. Roach Pdf

Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage

Author : Elin Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136165887

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Performance and Cultural Politics by Elin Diamond Pdf

Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.

Author : Elinor Fuchs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253113474

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The Death of Character by Elinor Fuchs Pdf

"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call the 'avant-garde.'" —Essays in Theatre ". . . an insightful set of theoretical 'takes' on how to think about theatre before and theatre after modernism." —Theatre Journal "In short, for those who never experienced a 'postmodern swoon,' Elinor Fuchs is an excellent informant." —Performing Arts Journal ". . . a thoughtful, highly readable contribution to the evolving literature on theatre and postmodernism." —Modern Drama "A work of bold theoretical ambition and exceptional critical intelligence. . . . Fuchs combines mastery of contemporary cultural theory with a long and full participation in American theater culture: the result is a long-needed, long-awaited elaboration of a new theatrical paradigm." —Una Chaudhuri, New York University "What makes this book exceptional is Fuchs' acute rehearsal of the stranger unnerving events of the last generation that have—in the cross-reflections of theory—determined our thinking about theater. She seems to have seen and absorbed them all." —Herbert Blau, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Surveying the extraordinary scene of the postmodern American theater, Fuchs boldly frames key issues of subjectivity and performance with the keenest of critical eyes for the compelling image and the telling gesture." —Joseph Roach, Tulane University " . . . Fuchs makes an exceptionally lucid and eloquent case for the value and contradictions in postmodern theater." —Alice Rayner, Stanford University "Arguably the most accessible yet learned road map to what remains for many impenetrable territoryan obligatory addition to all academic libraries serving upper-division undertgraduates and above." —Choice "A systematic, comprehensive and historically-minded assessment of what, precisely, 'post-modern theatre' is, anyway." —American Theatre In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic. Nine of her Village Voice and American Theatre essays conclude the volume. They give an immediate, vivid account of contemporary theater and theatrical culture written from the front of rapid cultural change.

Author : Joanne 'Bob' Whalley,Lee Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137584069

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Between Us by Joanne 'Bob' Whalley,Lee Miller Pdf

This is a book for audiences. It is a book about audiences. It is a book for anyone who watches, is watched, and all the spaces in between. Introducing the idea of performance as a shared transformative experience, this engaging book will help you make sense of the performer/audience interaction in a landscape where boundaries are collapsing. Drawing on themes of performance, exchange and the body, it offers an accessible entry into the philosophy of spectatorship.

Author : Herbert Blau
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010203318

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The Impossible Theater by Herbert Blau Pdf

The author critiques contemporary American theater.

Author : Jerome Rothenberg,David M. Guss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020318395

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The Book, Spiritual Instrument by Jerome Rothenberg,David M. Guss Pdf

18 essays on the subject. With contributions by Mallerme, Stephen Lansing, David Guss, Karl Young, Dennis Tedlock, Becky Cohen, Jed Rasula, Alison Knowles, George Quasha, Tina Oldknow, Dick Higgins, Edmond Jabes, Paul Eluard, Gershom Scholem, and Herbert Blau.