The Performer - Art, Life, Politics (Hardcover)

An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker 'All the world's a stage' declares the melancholy Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Today that's an unhappy thought. A cluster of demagogues has recently dominated the public realm through their powers as actors; they are brilliant performers. More unsettling, the demagogue, the dancer, the musician all share the same non-verbal realm of bodily gestures, lighting and blocking, costuming, stage architecture. So too, the roles and rituals of everyday life and everyday acting can be malign or sublime, repressive or liberating. Performing constitutes one art - an ambiguous art. In this book, the acclaimed sociologist Richard Sennett explores uncomfortable connections between performances in life, art, and politics. He draws on his own early career as a professional cellist as well on histories both Western and non-Western. He is not a pessimist; at the end of his study, he shows how this ambiguous art might become more ethical.

General

Imprint:	Allen Lane
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2024
Authors:	Richard Sennett
Dimensions:	240 x 156 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-241-63764-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-241-63764-3
Barcode:	9780241637647

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