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Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation
for European composers digesting the consequences of the
revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end
of the Second World War. The 'new music theatre' wrought multiple,
significant transformations, serving as a crucible for the
experimental rethinking of theatrical traditions, artistic genres,
the conventions of performance, and the composer's relation to
society. This volume brings together leading specialists from
across Europe to offer a new appraisal of the genre. It is
structured according to six themes that investigate: the relation
of new music theatre to earlier and contemporaneous theories of
drama; the use of new technologies; the relation of new music
theatre to progressive politics; the role of new venues and
environments; the advancement of new conceptions of the performer;
and the challenges that new music theatre lays down for music
analysis. Contributing authors address canonical works by composers
such as Berio, Birtwistle, Henze, Kagel, Ligeti, Nono, and
Zimmermann, but also expand the field to figures and artistic
developments not regularly represented in existing music histories.
Particular attention is given to new music theatre as a site of
intense exchange - between practitioners of different art forms,
across national borders, and with diverse mediating institutions.
This book investigates Jimmie Durham's community-building process
of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something
... Perhaps a Fugue or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities
(2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza Alves,
2018); and God's Poems, God's Children (2017). Andrea Feeser
explores these artworks in the context of ideas about connection
set forth by writers Ann Lauterbach, Franz Rosenzweig, Pamela Sue
Anderson, Vinciane Despret, and Hirokazu Miyazaki, among others.
Feeser argues that the materials in Durham's artworks; the method
of their construction; how Durham writes about his pieces; how they
exist with respect to one another; and how they address viewers,
demonstrate that we can create alongside others a world that
embraces and sustains what has been diminished. The book will be of
interest to scholars working in contemporary art, animal studies,
new materialism research, and eco-criticism.
Official art book of the Marvel's Midnight Suns video game, packed
with interviews with the creative team behind the game, as well as
stunning concept art created during the development process. When
the demonic Lilith and her fearsome horde unite with the evil
armies of Hydra, it's time to unleash Marvel's dark side. As The
Hunter, your mission is to lead an unlikely team of seasoned Super
Heroes and dangerous supernatural warriors to victory. Can legends
such as Doctor Strange, Iron Man, and Blade put aside their
differences in the face of a growing apocalyptic threat? If you're
going to save the world, you'll have to forge alliances and lead
the team into battle as the legendary Midnight Suns-Earth's last
line of defence against the underworld. Marvel's Midnight Suns -
The Art of the Game captures the creative process of this
much-anticipated game. The exclusive concept art and in-game
renderings created by the talented development team-creating the
game in collaboration with Marvel-are shown in glorious detail in
this lush, hardback volume. Characters, locations, gadgets,
weapons, monsters, enemies, and much more are all accompanied by
unique insights from the artists and developers behind the game. So
step into the world of Marvel's Midnight Suns - and rise up against
the darkness!
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Theatre in Towns
(Hardcover)
Helen Nicholson, Jenny Hughes, Gemma Edwards, Cara Gray
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The only academic study of the role of theatre in towns, focusing
on post-industrial, market and seaside towns. Written for theatre
academics and students, with a secondary readership in cultural
geography and cultural/social policy. Draws on historical and
existing experiences of volunteer-led, community, professional
theatre in towns, and offers ways in which the relationship between
theatre and towns can continue to be assessed in the future.
Western Theatre in Global Contexts explores the junctures,
tensions, and discoveries that occur when teaching Western
theatrical practices or directing English-language plays in
countries that do not share Western theatre histories or in which
English is the non-dominant language. This edited volume examines
pedagogical discoveries and teaching methods, how to produce
specific plays and musicals, and how students who explore Western
practices in non-Western places contribute to the art form.
Offering on-the-ground perspectives of teaching and working outside
of North American and Europe, the book analyzes the importance of
paying attention to the local context when developing theatrical
practice and education. It also explores how educators and artists
who make deep connections in the local culture can facilitate
ethical accessibility to Western models of performance for
students, practitioners and audiences. Western Theatre in Global
Contexts is an excellent resource for scholars, artists, and
teachers that are working abroad or on intercultural projects in
theatre, education and the arts.
A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and
experiences of collaborators in other artists' works. This book
reorients well-known works of contemporary performance and social
practice around the workers who have shaped, enacted, and supported
them. It emerges from perspectives on maintenance, care, affective
labor, and the knowledges created and preserved through gesture and
intersubjectivity. This compilation of interviews is filled with
the voices of collaborators in notable works attributed to
established contemporary artists, including Francis Alys, Tania
Bruguera, Suzanne Lacy, Ernesto Pujol, Asad Raza, Dread Scott, and
Tino Sehgal. In the spirit of the artworks under discussion, this
book reinvests in the possibilities for art as a collective effort
to explore new ways of finding ourselves in others and others in
ourselves. The Sourcebook collection is a contribution for further
theorizing a largely unaddressed perspective in contemporary art.
This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars
in performance studies and art history.
This book brings together history and theory in art and media to
examine the effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning
in culture, and reflects on the implications of delegating parts of
the creative process to AI. In order to understand the complexity
of authorship and originality in relation to creativity in
contemporary times, Navas combines historical and theoretical
premises from different areas of research in the arts, humanities,
and social sciences to provide a rich historical and theoretical
context that critically reflects on and questions the implications
of artificial intelligence and machine learning as an integral part
of creative production. As part of this, the book considers how
much of postproduction and remix aesthetics in art and media
preceded the current rise of metacreativity in relation to
artificial intelligence and machine learning, and explores
contemporary questions on aesthetics. The book also provides a
thorough evaluation of the creative application of systematic
approaches to art and media production, and how this in effect
percolates across disciplines including art, design, communication,
as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences. An
essential read for students and scholars interested in
understanding the increasing role of AI and machine learning in
contemporary art and media, and their wider role in creative
production across culture and society.
This book examines the performance of Bauls, 'folk' performers from
Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and
against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.
Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm,
Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and
transformational potency of Bauls and their performances.
In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical,
spiritual, and cultural performances offer 'joy' and
'spirituality,' thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his
famous 1942 speech had identified as 'reclamation of human
personality'. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of 'folk' as a
fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous
historical representations of the Baul as a 'folk' performer and a
wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that
characterizes this group. Establishing 'folk-ness' as a performance
category, and 'folk festivals' as sites of performing 'folk-ness,'
contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and
recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that
produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits
of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality
and multifocality. While this project has grounded itself firmly in
performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of
postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature,
ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.
Aus der Kunst kommend und notgedrungen zum Forscher geworden, hob
der vielseitig schaffende Oswald Wiener (1935—2021) in seiner
Denkpsychologie hervor: „Eine Synthese von Selbstbeobachtung und
Automatentheorie strebe ich nicht an. Es geht vielmehr um eine
Gegenüberstellung: Was an den in der Selbstbeobachtung
aufgefaßten Zusammenhängen läßt sich auf einigermaßen
befriedigende Weise als eine Realisierung von Zusammenhängen
innerhalb eines formalen Systems, z. B. des formalen Systems
Automatentheorie auffassen. Oder umgekehrt: Wie gut erfaßt das
Modell Automatentheorie (Computer-Metapher, ,Physical Symbol
System', künstliche Intelligenz auf dem heutigen Stand ...)
wesentliche Züge des menschlichen Denkens? Was würde hier als
eine ,einigermaßen befriedigende Weise' gelten? Wie sehr und was
abstrahiert das formale System?“   Drei Gespräche mit Wiener
über die historische Theorieentwicklung und vier Essays in diesem
Buch sollen diesen neuen und bislang zu wenig im akademischen
Diskurs beachteten Ansatz der Denktheorie ein- und fortführen.
Angelpunkt der Überlegungen ist Wieners letzter großer Aufsatz
„Kybernetik und Gespenster“.
This guide introduces aspiring manga artists to drawing chibi
characters--wide-eyed caricatures beloved for their cartoonish
exaggeration. Drawing Cute Manga Chibi walks you through the steps
needed to draw these adorable characters, while sidebars offer
expert tips, pointers on the pitfalls to avoid, and how to use
details to bring your drawings to life. In this book, readers will
learn how to imagine and express: Facial expressions Body posture
Hairstyles Different ages Poses Bringing your characters into
full-color Different character identities--from a punk rocker to a
samurai Author and Japanese manga artist Ryusuke Hamamoto (Ryu
Moto) is best known for his design and creation of the Petit Eva
character--who even makes an appearance in this book! In Drawing
Cute Manga Chibi, he shares his personal tips, showing you how to
break the "rules" of figure drawing in order to create these
bobbleheaded cuties. Artists of all ages and levels will have fun
creating original characters or reimagining their friends and
family as kawaii chibi drawings.
A broad-ranging guide to the process, collaborations and lasting
influences of one of Europe's leading Twentieth Century actor
trainers. Written for students and scholars of Theatre Studies,
particularly acting, directing, European theatre and 20th Century
theatre. By far the most comprehensive and up to date setting out
of Meyerhold's role in theatre.
British painter William Tillyer (born 1938) is regarded as one of
the most accomplished and consistently inventive artists working in
watercolor. His work luxuriates in translucent color and sensuous
brushwork. Some of his pieces, in their untrammeled expressive zeal
and readily apparent love of color as a pure quality call to mind
the canvases of Morris Louis; in other paintings, flamboyantly
voluptuous shapes confront geometric abstractions and Minimalist
blocks of color. With 224 full-color images, "William Tillyer:
Watercolours" provides a comprehensive look at the titular aspect
of Tillyer's oeuvre, looking back over nearly 40 years of work. It
includes three texts by the American poet and art historian John
Yau, an essay describing the development of Tillyer's watercolors
and linking his work to the tradition of the English watercolor, an
essay on the latest body of work and an interview with the artist.
A survey of the key moments in dance performance in the USA. Aimed
at undergraduate students on Dance BA and BFA degrees in the United
States. Deliberately takes a diverse, inclusive perspective,
covering previously marginalised or overlooked figures' roles in
the development of US dance.
From Yves Klein's spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes
of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol's denim to
Martine Syms's joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are
tools of expression, storytelling, resistance, and creativity. In
What Artists Wear, fashion critic and art curator Charlie Porter
guides us through the wardrobes of modern artists: in the studio,
in performance, at work or at play. For Porter, clothing is a way
in: the wild paint-splatters on Jean-Michel Basquiat's designer
clothing, Joseph Beuys's shamanistic felt hat, or the functional
workwear that defined Agnes Martin's life of spiritua labor. As
Porter roams widely from Georgia O'Keeffe's tailoring to David
Hockney's bold color blocking to Sondra Perry's intentional casual
wear, he weaves his own perceptive analyses with original
interviews and contributions from artists and their families and
friends. Part love letter, part guide to chic, with more than 300
images, What Artists Wear offers a new way of understanding art,
combined with a dynamic approach to the clothes we all wear. The
result is a radical, gleeful inspiration to see each outfit as a
canvas on which to convey an identity or challenge the status quo.
This second collection of gorgeously illustrated artworks
highlights events from volumes 10 through 15 of the main story. The
definitive edition also includes illustrations from volumes 1
through 3 of Sword Art Online: Progressive, as well as art from
animated productions, games, and conventions. A must-have for SAO
fans and abec fans alike!
Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater's ecological interventions
and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes, colonial
histories, climate change, and public space across New York City,
Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin. The volume uses Harmattan's
site-specific performances as a point of departure to consider
climate change and rising sea levels as geographical, ecological,
and urban phenomena. Instead of a collection of flat, static
surfaces, the Aquatopia atlas is animated by a disorienting,
anti-mapping strategy, producing a deterritorialized, nomadic,
fluid atlas unfolding in real time as an archive of climate change
in multidimensional, active space. The book is designed for
pedagogical access, with interludes that consolidate the learning
outcomes of the experimental theory animating each site-specific
performance. Accompanied by close descriptions of five performances
and supplemented by digital documentation available online, this
volume intervenes in discussions on climate change, urbanism, and
postcolonization/decolonialization, and contributes to
interdisciplinary studies of ecology and environmental politics,
postcolonial/decolonial theories and practices, performance studies
and aesthetics, in particular public art, and performance as
research.
A significant publication of original writing on Lucian Freud,
including interviews with leading contemporary artists, marking the
100th anniversary of his birth Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was one of
the greatest figurative painters of the twentieth century. With an
unflinching eye and an uncompromising commitment to his work, he
created masterpieces that continue to inspire contemporary artists
to the present day. Spanning nearly 70 years, Freud's career has
often been overshadowed by his biography and celebrity. This book
re-examines his paintings through a broad series of original
approaches. Texts by a variety of rising and established
international writers explore topics ranging from the compositional
echoes of old master paintings in Freud's works, to the
contextualization of his practice within the class struggles of
1980s Britain. Throughout the book, leading contemporary painters
such as Tracey Emin and Chantal Joffe give insightful testimony to
the relevance of Freud today. Marking the 100th anniversary of
Freud's birth, this publication accompanies the first major
exhibition of his work in 10 years. Presenting fresh perspectives
on his paintings, it introduces Freud to a new generation of
scholars and enthusiasts - demonstrating his lasting international
importance. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by
Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery,
London October 1, 2022-January 22, 2023 Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,
Madrid February 14-June 18, 2023
In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen
re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how
the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer
pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a
collection of reprinted and first-published (although previously
presented) textual material interspersed with editorial material -
reflective essays from John and Knut on these pieces from the
archives and original essays from invited scholars that explore the
theme of repetition and re-cycling. The project has a number of
aims: to suggest how the status of 'new' with regard to academic
and staged dramaturgical materials may be reframed; to re-examine
these through certain lenses and concepts (re-cycling; re-working;
the spectator; landscape, post- and other dramaturgies); to explore
the possibilities of critique offered by particular modes of
juxtaposition, dialogue and dialectic; to offer further
provocations to received ideas; and to retrieve and re-approach
material, once published or presented, that becomes 'lost' in
archives or on library shelves. As shown here, the role of the
hyphen acts as an indicator to the status of 're-' in relation to
the 'new'. Written for scholars and academics, researchers,
undergraduate and postgraduate students, and practitioners working
in all forms for theatre and performance, Staging and Re-cycling
suggests a new form of dialogue between work, authors and readers,
and draws out threads that extend back into the past and
potentially forward into the future.
This book explores the concept of playmaking and activism through
three research projects in which culturally and linguistically
diverse high school students and young adults created original
theatre around the issues that inform their lives and constrain
their futures. Each study discussed by the author is considered
through the lens of one or more best practices. The outcomes of the
playmaking experiences, communicated through detailed ethnographic
data and the voices of student participants, make a strong case for
using what we already know about teaching to positively impact
gross inequities of outcome for culturally and linguistically
diverse students. This study will be of great interest to students,
scholars, and practitioners in Applied Theatre, Theatre Education,
and Art Therapy.
Theatre, History, Criticism, Soviet Union, Russia, Western
countries, Drama, Asian,
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