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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 -

Sleep No More (Paperback): Danilo Correale Sleep No More (Paperback)
Danilo Correale
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Monsters in Performance - Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification (Paperback): Michael Chemers, Analola Santana Monsters in Performance - Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification (Paperback)
Michael Chemers, Analola Santana
R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Showcases an exploration of monstrosity in performance through key themes including race, gender and sexuality, disability studies * Interdisciplinary book that will be relevant to students and scholars from many backgrounds including Theatre and Performance, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies * Uniquely international approach to the study of monstrosity which sets it apart from other books whose focus are more Eurocentric/Western

Live Visuals - History, Theory, Practice (Hardcover): Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka Live Visuals - History, Theory, Practice (Hardcover)
Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka
R4,538 Discovery Miles 45 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Replete with interviews with key practitioners (both in the book and online) will give up-to-date information on the techniques, forms and concepts used by leading figures in contemporary Live Visuals.

Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory - 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition): Anthony Elliott Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory - 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Anthony Elliott
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory is fully revised and updated to provide students, teachers and researchers with a comprehensive, critical guide to the major traditions of thought in social and cultural theory, as well as tracing the complex intellectual connections between these distinct but related approaches to understanding society and culture. The Handbook, edited by acclaimed sociologist Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are also new chapters on mobilities and migrations, as well as posthumanism. The Handbook, written in a clear and direct style will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars. The extensive references and sources will direct students to areas of further study.

Laura Knight - A Working Life (Paperback): Helen Valentine, Annette Wickham Laura Knight - A Working Life (Paperback)
Helen Valentine, Annette Wickham
R398 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R86 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dame Laura Knight RA (1877-1970) was the first female member to be elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, submitting Dawn, her now famous painting of two female nudes, as her Diploma Work in 1936. In 1965 the Academy's major retrospective of her work recognised her importance in British art. This autumn an exhibition of Knight's drawings opens at the RA. Drawing was a key part of her practice, and allowed her to capture at speed her various subjects, which include travellers, circus performers, boxers, ballet dancers and ice skaters. Drawing allowed her to capture with immediacy the exuberant life of her models, as well as being a vital recording tool when she witnessed one of the most important events of the twentieth century: the Nuremberg trials. In this new publication on the artist, Annette Wickham and Helen Valentine present the Academy's holdings of her drawings with an in-depth analysis focused on three key subjects within her work: the nude, the working woman and country life.

Revived with Care - John Fletcher's Plays on the British Stage, 1885-2020 (Paperback): Peter Malin Revived with Care - John Fletcher's Plays on the British Stage, 1885-2020 (Paperback)
Peter Malin
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of the modern performance history of plays in the John Fletcher canon, excluding his collaborations with Shakespeare. It examines how seventeen of Fletcher's plays have been interpreted in British productions. In addition, the book offers a consideration of the contexts in which these productions took place, from the early twentieth century 'Elizabethan Revival' to the more politicized theatrical cultures of the 1960s and beyond. Revived with Care opens a window on some of the theatrical developments of the past 135 years, in the context of radical changes in the presentation and reception of early modern drama, while for theatre practitioners it provides ideas and inspiration for exploring little-known but powerful plays in exciting new productions. The book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the field of theatre and performance studies.

Brecht in India - The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre (Paperback): Prateek Brecht in India - The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre (Paperback)
Prateek
R1,257 Discovery Miles 12 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brecht in India analyses the dramaturgy and theatrical practices of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in post-independence India. The book explores how post-independence Indian drama is an instance of a cultural palimpsest, a site celebrating a dialogue between Western and Indian theatrical traditions, rather than a homogenous and isolated canon. Analysing the dissemination of a selection of Brecht's plays in the Hindi belt between the 1960s and the 1990s, this study demonstrates that Brecht's work provided aesthetic and ideological paradigms to modern Hindi playwrights, helping them develop and stage a national identity. The book also traces how the reception of Brecht was mediated in India, how it helped post-independence Indian playwrights formulate a political theatre, and how the dissemination of Brechtian aesthetics in India addressed the anxiety related to the stasis in Brechtian theatre in Europe. Tracking the dialogue between Brechtian aesthetics in India and Europe and a history of deliberate cultural resistance, Brecht in India is an invaluable resource for academics and students of theatre studies and theatre historiography, as well as scholars of post-colonial history and literature.

Final Fantasy Vii Remake: Material Ultimania (Hardcover): Square Enix, Studio BentStuff, Digital Hearts Final Fantasy Vii Remake: Material Ultimania (Hardcover)
Square Enix, Studio BentStuff, Digital Hearts
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Monsters in Performance - Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification (Hardcover): Michael Chemers, Analola Santana Monsters in Performance - Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification (Hardcover)
Michael Chemers, Analola Santana
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Showcases an exploration of monstrosity in performance through key themes including race, gender and sexuality, disability studies * Interdisciplinary book that will be relevant to students and scholars from many backgrounds including Theatre and Performance, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies * Uniquely international approach to the study of monstrosity which sets it apart from other books whose focus are more Eurocentric/Western

Floating Bones - A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher (Paperback): Cynthia Roses-Thema Floating Bones - A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher (Paperback)
Cynthia Roses-Thema
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Floating Bones charts the author's journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one's body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the means that constructed approaching the body as a teacher. This study presents the argument for extending the models of thinking to include bodily thinking, by citing how the experiential perspective of tensegrity constructs physical evidence of the rhetorical concept, metis, where the body thinks as it moves. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of dance, theater, and sociology.

From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage - How Did They Do It? (Hardcover): Leslie Thomson From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage - How Did They Do It? (Hardcover)
Leslie Thomson
R4,062 Discovery Miles 40 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drama, History, Great Britain, Tudor Era, Elizabethan Era, Stuart Era, acting & auditioning

Meanings Of Modern Art, Revised (Paperback): John Russell Meanings Of Modern Art, Revised (Paperback)
John Russell
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A survey of modern art from the Impressionists to the present, with a new chapter on the art of the seventies and eighties, and corrections and revisions in the text.

Peter Brook and the Mahabharata - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover): David Williams Peter Brook and the Mahabharata - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover)
David Williams
R3,203 Discovery Miles 32 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1991, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata is a collection of essays which contextualizes the production of Peter Brook's The Mahabharata. Written by both scholars and collaborators on Brook's production, these essays seek not only to discuss such issues as the politics of theatre interculturalism, but to describe the nature of the working process, and detail the technical problems engendered by touring a production of this size and complexity. Furnished with a new preface by the editor, the book continues to be crucial research work devoted to unravelling the mesmerising as well as the polarising enigma known as Peter Brook's The Mahabharata. Thoroughly heterogenous and controversially irreverent, this book will be of interest to students of theatre, performance art, literature, South Asian studies and media studies.

Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde (Hardcover): David Hopkins, Disa Persson Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde (Hardcover)
David Hopkins, Disa Persson
R4,062 Discovery Miles 40 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health and hygiene, such as illness, contagion, cleanliness, and contamination. Examining the artistic oeuvres of some of the canonical names of modern art – including Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, George Orwell, Marcel Duchamp, and Antonin Artaud – this book investigates instances where the heightened political, social, and cultural currencies embedded within issues of hygiene and contagion have been mobilised, and subversively exploited, to fuel the critical strategy at play. This edited volume promotes an interdisciplinary and socio-historically contextualised understanding of the criticality of the avant-garde gesture and cultivates scholarship that moves beyond the limits of traditional academic subjects to produce innovative and thought-provoking connections and interrelations across various fields. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, theatre, cultural studies, modern history, medical humanities, and visual culture.

The Rainbow's Gravity - Colour, Materiality and British Modernity (Hardcover): Kirsty Sinclair Dootson The Rainbow's Gravity - Colour, Materiality and British Modernity (Hardcover)
Kirsty Sinclair Dootson
R1,329 Discovery Miles 13 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC’s conversion to chromatic broadcasting, the story of colour’s technological development is inseparable from wider processes of modernisation that transformed Britain. This revolutionary history brings to light how new colour technologies informed ideas about national identity during a period of profound social change, when the challenges of industrialisation, decolonisation of the Empire and evolving attitudes to race and gender reshaped the nation. Offering a compelling new account of modern British visual culture that reveals colour to be central to its aesthetic trajectories and political formations, this chromatic lens deepens our understanding of how British art is made and what it means, offering a new way to assess the visual landscape of the period and interpret its colourful objects.   Across a kaleidoscopic array of materials, from radiant paintings by major Victorian artists, vivid print advertisements and vibrant interwar fashion photographs, to glorious Technicolor films and the prismatic programmes of the BBC’s early years of colour television, The Rainbow’s Gravity reveals how Britain modernised colour and how colour, in turn, modernised Britain. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Coin Perdu (Paperback): Sofie Van der Linden Coin Perdu (Paperback)
Sofie Van der Linden
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas - Sources, Performance, Interpretation (Hardcover): Ellen Rosand Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas - Sources, Performance, Interpretation (Hardcover)
Ellen Rosand; Series edited by University of Massachusetts; Edited by Stefano La Via
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties The premise of the volume is the idea that constructive dialogue between musicologists and musicians, stage directors and theater historians, as well as philologists and literary critics, can shed new light on Monteverdi's two Venetian operas. will appeal to scholars and researchers in Opera Studies and Music History as well as being of interest to early music performers and all those involved with presenting opera on stage.

The Jukebox Musical - An Interpretive History (Hardcover): Kevin Byrne, Emily Fuchs The Jukebox Musical - An Interpretive History (Hardcover)
Kevin Byrne, Emily Fuchs
R4,042 Discovery Miles 40 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- A comprehensive guide to musicals that are based on musicians' existing back catalogues - how they work, why they work and why they are so successful. - Written for musical theatre students at all levels - primarily on the 150 BA degrees across the UK and North America. - The first book to address this relatively new genre of musical theatre, doing so with in-depth and wide ranging analysis.

Deburau - Pierrot, Mime, and Culture (Hardcover): Edward Nye Deburau - Pierrot, Mime, and Culture (Hardcover)
Edward Nye
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1. The last specialised study of Deburau (the most famous and influential mime actor of all time) in French or English was the biography by Tristan Remy in 1954, Jean-Gaspard Deburau. 2. This book is very wide-ranging: starting with Deburau's Pierrot figure, it discusses nineteenth-century theatre, novels, poetry, society, and twentieth-century echoes in cinema and modern mime. 3. Readers who think they know who and what 'Pierrot' is (and was) will be surprised by what they find in this book; for example, his relation to colonialism and race. 4. There are 26 figures in the book, all of them discussed in depth. 5. Deburau is well-known among scholars, and the wider public know his image even if they can't necessarily put a name to it, but he has never been studied through such a wide range of manuscript as well as published sources, many of them identified for the first time.

Disney Villains: 13 Frights of Halloween (2022) (Hardcover): Insight Editions Disney Villains: 13 Frights of Halloween (2022) (Hardcover)
Insight Editions
R650 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R112 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig - A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask & Marionette (Hardcover): Thomas Leabhart Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig - A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask & Marionette (Hardcover)
Thomas Leabhart
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1. Of interest to actors and object-animators. 2. Useful for directors, devisers, and collective creators 3. A new way of looking at the theatre history of the 20th century 4. Good for Theatre Anthropologists.

Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands - In Concert and on Stage (Paperback): Judith Mabary Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands - In Concert and on Stage (Paperback)
Judith Mabary
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few are aware that there exists a type of melodrama that contains in its smaller forms the beauty of the sung ballad and, in the larger-scale works, the appeal of the spoken play. This category of melodrama is one that surfaced in many cultures but was perhaps never so enthusiastically cultivated as in the Czech lands. The melodrama varied greatly at the hands of its Czech advocates. While the works of Zdenek Fibich and his contemporary Josef Bohuslav Foerster, a composer best known for his songs, remained closely bound to the text, those of conductor/composer Otakar Ostrcil reveal a stance that privileged the music and, given their creator's orchestral experience, are more reminiscent of the symphonic poem. Fibich in his staged works and Josef Suk (composer/violinist and Dvorak's son-in-law), in his incidental music reflect variously late nineteenth-century Romanticism, the influence of Wagner, and early manifestations of Impressionism. In its more recent guise, the principles of the staged melodrama reside quite comfortably in the film score. Judith A. Mabary's important volume will be of interest not only to musicologists, but those working in Central and East European studies, voice studies, European theatre, and those studying music and nationalism.

Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace - Travelling Theatre (Paperback): James Wenley Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace - Travelling Theatre (Paperback)
James Wenley
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace offers a case study of how the theatre of Aotearoa has toured, represented and marketed itself on the global stage. How has New Zealand work attempted to stand out, differentiate itself, and get seen by audiences internationally? This book examines the journeys of a dynamic range of culturally and theatrically innovative works created by Aotearoa New Zealand theatre makers that have toured and been performed across time, place and theatrical space: from Moana Oceania to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, from a Maori Shakespeare adaptation to an immersive zombie theatre experience. Drawing on postcolonialism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and globality to understand how Aotearoa New Zealand has imagined and conceived of itself through drama, the author investigates how these representations might be read and received by audiences around the world, variously reinforcing and complicating conceptions of New Zealand national identity. Developing concepts of theatrical mobility, portability and the market, this study engages with the whole theatrical enterprise as a play travels from concept and scripting through to funding, marketing, performance and the critical response by reviewers and commentators. This book will be of global interest to academics, producers and theatre artists as a significant resource for the theory and practice of theatre touring and cross-cultural performance and reception.

Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score - A Critique of Performance (Paperback): Josefine Wikstroem Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score - A Critique of Performance (Paperback)
Josefine Wikstroem
R1,222 Discovery Miles 12 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this study, Josefine Wikstroem challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept. This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in art theory and performance and dance studies. Through an analysis of 1960s performance practices, Wikstroem focuses specifically on task-dance and event-score practices and provides an examination of the key philosophical concepts that are inseparable from such a concept of art and are necessary for the reconstruction of a critical concept of performance, such as "practice", "experience", "object", "abstraction" and "structure". This book will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners across dance, performance art, aesthetics and art theory.

Alice in Wonderland Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Hardcover): Minerva Siegel Alice in Wonderland Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Hardcover)
Minerva Siegel; Illustrated by Lisa Vannini
R661 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R156 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Let Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts guide your tarot practice with this beautifully illustrated tarot deck inspired by Disney's classic animated film Alice in Wonderland. Experience the magic of Disney's Alice in Wonderland like never before in this enchanting and delightfully unique take on the traditional 78-card tarot deck. This set features beloved characters from Alice to the Cheshire Cat to the White Rabbit and more in gorgeous original illustrations based on classic tarot iconography. Featuring both major and minor arcana, the set also comes with a helpful guidebook explaining each card's meaning, as well as simple instructions for easy readings. Packaged in a sturdy, decorative gift box, this charming tarot deck is the perfect gift for the Alice in Wonderland fan or tarot enthusiast. ORIGINAL ART: The booklet and each of the 78 cards in this deck feature never-before-seen original Alice in Wonderland-themed art. GUIDEBOOK INCLUDED: This unique deck includes a guidebook to help tarot practitioners of all skill levels perform fun and informed readings. BEAUTIFUL GIFT: The tarot deck and guidebook are packaged in a deluxe gift box perfect for gift giving. OFFICIAL DISNEY DECK: The only official Disney Alice in Wonderland tarot deck and guide. 70th ANNIVERSARY: This deck is the perfect way to celebrate 70 years of the beloved Disney film.

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