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This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive
'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became popular
in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then
the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules
of the theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes
visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential
characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for
teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama,
painting or sculpture.
Taking the theory of primary and secondary colours as his model,
Anthony Howell posits three primaries of action and shows how these
may be mixed to obtain a secondary range of actions. Based on a
taught course, the system is designed for practical use in the
studio and is also entertaining to explore. Examples are cited from
leading performance groups and practitioners such as Bobbie Baker,
Orlan, Stelarc, Annie Sprinkle, Robert Wilson, Goat Island, and
Station House Opera.
This volume, however, is not just an illustrated grammar of action
- it also shows how the syntax of that grammar has psychoanalytic
repercussions. This enables the performer to relate the system to
lived experience, ensuring a realisation that meaning is being
dealt with through these actions and that the stystem set forth is
more than a dry structuring of the characteristics of
movement.
Freud's notion of 'transference' and Lacan's understanding of
'repetition' are compared to a performer's usage of the same terms.
Thus the book provides a psychoanalytic critique of performance at
the same time as it outlines an efficient method for creating live
work on both fine art and theatre courses.
This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive
'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became popular
in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then
the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules
of the theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes
visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential
characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for
teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama,
painting or sculpture.
Taking the theory of primary and secondary colours as his model,
Anthony Howell posits three primaries of action and shows how these
may be mixed to obtain a secondary range of actions. Based on a
taught course, the system is designed for practical use in the
studio and is also entertaining to explore. Examples are cited from
leading performance groups and practitioners such as Bobbie Baker,
Orlan, Stelarc, Annie Sprinkle, Robert Wilson, Goat Island, and
Station House Opera.
This volume, however, is not just an illustrated grammar of action
- it also shows how the syntax of that grammar has psychoanalytic
repercussions. This enables the performer to relate the system to
lived experience, ensuring a realisation that meaning is being
dealt with through these actions and that the stystem set forth is
more than a dry structuring of the characteristics of
movement.
Freud's notion of 'transference' and Lacan's understanding of
'repetition' are compared to a performer's usage of the same terms.
Thus the book provides a psychoanalytic critique of performance at
the same time as it outlines an efficient method for creating live
work on both fine art and theatre courses.
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Spending (Paperback)
Anthony Howell; Illustrated by Dilys Bidewell
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R176
Discovery Miles 1 760
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Poetry. SPENDING is a meticulously wrought collection of poems
concerned with sexuality, interspersed with drawings, which run
parallel to the text without illustrating it. The poems are highly
charged - as much by the psychological tension of intercourse as by
the allure of the acts described. What is made explicit is the mood
of the event, its sourness as much as its sweetness, with the poems
spanning the diapason of the intimacies - from tenderness and
passion to callousness and unashamed vulgarity. Dilys Bidewell's
images provide the text with intervals of visual stimulation as
keenly turned and as wicked as the poems.
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The Avengers 6 - The Lost Episodes (CD)
John Dorney, Rae Leaver, Ian Potter; Performed by Anthony Howell, Julian Wadham, …
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R755
R534
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Steed and Dr Keel return to action in these three recreations of
classic lost episodes. 6.1 THE FRIGHTENERS by Berkeley Mather,
adapted by Rae Leaver. If you need someone scared off, you speak to
the Deacon. Steed and Keel are on the trail of an intimidation
expert whose services have recently been acquired by a wealthy
businessman. But as they head deeper and deeper into this seedy
world, who do they really have to stop. And who do they have to
save? 6.2 DEATH ON THE SLIPWAY by Ian Potter, from a storyline by
James Mitchell. When a fellow agent is killed, Steed is sent
undercover at a government dockyard to find the killer. Can he sort
the truth from the lies and track down the enemy infiltrator
hunting for top secret plans before it's all too late? 6.3 TUNNEL
OF FEAR by John Dorney, from a storyline by Terrence Feeley.
Southend. A perfect spot for a family holiday - or for a traitor to
hide. Somewhere in the town lurks a spy ring that is smuggling out
classified information. When his old mole is attacked, and with
innocent lives at risk, Steed takes Keel to the seaside for a far
from sunny time.Episodes from the wiped first series of The
Avengers recreated faithfully on audio - this set sees some real
detective work piecing together the stories from the few clues
remaining from before the episodes were lost. This full-cast audio
drama is brought to life with eerily engrossing sound design and a
brand new, cinematic music score. Starring Anthony Howell (Foyle's
War, Dirk Gently, Dracula) and Julian Wadham (The Iron Lady, War
Horse, Downton Abbey). CAST: Anthony Howell (Dr Keel), Julian
Wadham (John Steed), Lucy Briggs-Owen (Carol Wilson), Hugh Ross
(Sir Thomas Weller), Eve Webster (Marilyn Weller), Michael Lumsden
(The Deason), Laurence Spellman (Moxon), Chris Pavlo (Nature Boy),
Ferdy Roberts (Kolchek), Jon Culshaw (Sir William Bonner), Niky
Wardley (Liz Wells), Barnaby Edwards (Sam Pearson), Dan Starkey
(One-Ten), Pete Collis (Harry Black), Charlotte Strevens (Mrs
Black), Amy Embank (Claire), Tony Turner (Wickram), Charles Davies
(Maxie Lardner).
Steed and Dr Keel return to action in these four recreations of
classic lost episodes. 1. Ashes of Roses. Carol goes undercover at
a hairdressing salon, which appears to be at the centre of an arson
ring. 2. Please Don't Feed the Animals. Steed takes on blackmailers
who are extorting secrets from government officials. 3. The
Radioactive Man. Someone is on the loose in London, unwittingly
carrying a radioactive isotope. 4. Dance With Death. Dr Keel is
framed for murder, and Steed investigates a dance school.
The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a
need for information, education and training in the field of the
diagnosis and treatment of cancer. There are two main reasons why
such an initiative was considered necessary. Firstly, the teaching
of oncology requires a rigorously multidisciplinary approach which
is difficult for the Universities to put into practice since their
system is mainly disciplinary orientated. Secondly, the rate of
technological development that impinges on the diagnosis and
treatment of cancer has been so rapid that it is not an easy task
for medical faculties to adapt their curricula flexibly. With its
residential courses for organ pathologies and the seminars on new
techniques (laser, monoclonal antibodies, imaging techniques etc.)
or on the principal therapeutic controversies (conservative or
mutilating surgery, primary or adjuvant chemotherapy, radiotherapy
alone or integrated), it is the ambition of the European School of
Oncology to fill a cultural and scientific gap and, thereby, create
a bridge between the University and Industry and between these two
and daily medical practice. One of the more recent initiatives of
ESO has been the institution of permanent study groups, also called
task forces, where a limited number of leading experts are invited
to meet once a year with the aim of defining the state of the art
and possibly reaching a consensus on future developments in
specific fields of oncology.
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Various Artists - IKON (CD)
Gyorgy Sviridov, Holst Singers, James Bowman, Stephen Layton, Julian Millard, …
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R172
Discovery Miles 1 720
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Various Artists - Henry VIII (DVD)
Dominic Rowan, Miranda Raison, Ian McNeice, Anthony Howell, Kate Duchene; Contributions by …
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R125
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Filmed performance of William Shakespeare's play 'Henry VIII' at
the Globe Theatre in London. Henry VIII (Dominic Rowan) is involved
in a passionate tryst with Anne Boleyn (Miranda Raison). Political
intrigue in the court, however, threatens to disrupt the affair.
The powerful Cardinal Wolsey (Ian McNeice) convinces Queen
Katherine (Kate Duchene) to interfere in the affair, in the hope of
strengthening the position of the Catholic Church in England.
Perhaps the pair have underestimated the love Henry has for Anne
Boleyn, as the King hatches a plan to free himself from the
dominion of Rome...
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