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Vendor: Friedhelm Mennekes
Joseph Beuys--Manresa: A Spiritual Geography
The first performances by Joseph Beuys were a radical turning point for twentieth-century art. Beuys saw art as a transformative action that is both personal and communal, and his expanded artistic practice engaged spirituality, personal mythology, political structures, and symbolic materials. For Manresa, one...- $35.00
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Vendor: Branden W. Joseph
Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage: A "Minor" History
Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt's radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and...- $32.00
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Vendor: Jose Ferez Kuri
Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age
This comprehensive biography presents the achievements of Brion Gysin, a multi-faceted artist whose work has influenced performers such as David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Recalling the heady atmosphere of the so-called Beat Hotel in Paris in the late 1950s and 1960s, it features first-hand...- $44.95
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Vendor: Anne Bogart
The Art of Resonance
What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing arts. The...- $26.95
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Vendor: Lynn Sally
Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation
The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque artist Lynn Sally offers...- $29.95
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Vendor: Thomas McEvilley
Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramovic and Ulay Together & Apart
In 1975 Marina Abramovic and Uwe Laysiepen met in Amsterdam, fell in love, and began to collaborate as performance artists. By the time their personal relationship ended twelve years later they had become two of the most famous performance artists in the world. Thomas...- $27.00
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Vendor: Ronald Tracy
"Our Mary": The Stage Life of Mary Anderson
"Our Mary" is the story of Mary Anderson's rapid rise to stage stardom beginning at the age of seventeen years. From her first appearance on the stage in her hometown Louisville, KY, she garnered both praise and criticism for her acting ability, while her...- $14.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth Gregory
Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy Through Celebrity, 1952-1970
While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment: with fresh readings of many of the late poems and of...- $41.95
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Vendor: Helen Paris
Devising Theatre & Performance: Curious Methods
A hands-on guide for artists, students, and teachers of devised theater, at any stage of their practice. This book is packed with thoughtful exercises distilled from twenty-five years of interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching devising and performance making at universities in the United States...- $33.00
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Vendor: Reza de Wet
de Wet: Plays One
Includes the plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle The three plays in this volume are hauntingly beautiful pieces with simple fable-like characters who are touched by magical events. A circus has a mysterious significance in Missing (Mis) as a mother and daughter are visited by...- $26.95
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Vendor: Roselee Goldberg
Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century
This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. Performance Now offers an unprecedented...- $45.00
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Vendor: Hugh O'Gorman
Acting Action: A Primer for Actors
"What is it that we're doing, when we're acting well?" This is the question famously posed by Earle Gister, the legendary head of the acting department at Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1999. In Acting Action, actor, director, and teaching artist Hugh...- $27.00
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Vendor: Wim Van Dullemen
The Gurdjieff Movements: A Communication of Ancient Wisdom
The teachings of the Russian spiritual visionary G.I. Gurdjieff ( 1866-1949) are still being studied by an ever-growing number of people worldwide. While scores of books exist about the man and his teaching methods, few devote significant coverage to "the Gurdjieff Movements." These dozens...- $24.95
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Vendor: Ellen Kaufman
Double-Parked, with Tosca: Poems
Ellen Kaufman's Double-Parked, with Tosca navigates the natural and the manmade-often with an eye on their strained juxtaposition-or unravels the complex dynamics of the physical, social, and political. Kaufman can go from elegizing an Elizabethan old dress past to the environmentally conscious "now when]...- $19.95
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Vendor: Vincenzo de Bellis
The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance
How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by F lix Gonz lez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness...- $60.00
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Vendor: Sharrell Luckett
Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches
Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate...- $59.95
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Vendor: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Sacred Intent: Conversations with Carl Abrahamsson 1986-2019
Three decades of conversations with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, provocateur, artist, gender revolutionary and leader of the bands Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and morePublished for legendary artist and musician Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's 70th birthday in 2020, Sacred Intent gathers conversations between Breyer P-Orridge and his...- $30.00
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Vendor: Mike Callaway
The House Manager's Diary: A Guide to Customer Service for Regional and Community Theaters
A How-To Guide to effective customer service for Theatre House Managers and Patron Services Supervisors and Staff. Step by step instructions for planning, hiring, training and managing staff, volunteers and facilities to bring a happy audience into and out of a theatre performance, plus...- $20.95
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Vendor: Milford Graves
Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal
The first-ever overview on the multimedia art of free-jazz pioneer and creative polymath Milford GravesMilford Graves (born 1941) has been a revelatory force in music since the mid-1960s, liberating the drummer from the role of "timekeeper" to instrumental improviser and giving rise to the...- $45.00
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Vendor: Constantin Stanislavsky
An Actor Prepares
2022 Facsimile of the 1936 Edition. This work is the first volume of Stanislavski's trilogy on the art of acting; it explains the art of acting in semi-fiction form. Fusing psychological realism and expressionism, his exploratory exercises teach actors to evoke past emotions that...- $13.95
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Vendor: Julius B. Fleming Jr
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)Honorable Mention, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2023 John W. Frick Book Award (American Theatre and Drama...- $30.00
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Vendor: Lara Foot Newton
Tshepang: The Third Testament
'And besides, nothing ever happens here. Nothing. Niks.' Outside a South African town a silent woman, Ruth, goes through her self-imposed rituals, a child's crib strapped to her back. An observer, Simon, who has loved Ruth since childhood, tells her story. Tshepang was inspired...- $14.95
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Vendor: Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann: Uncollected Texts
Uncollected Texts gathers out-of-print and unpublished early writings by groundbreaking artist Carolee Schneemann (born 1939).Edited by art historian Branden W. Joseph, the texts span diverse formats: included are journal entries, criticism, poems, essays and performance notes culled primarily from short-run magazines such as Caterpillar,...- $20.00
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Vendor: Lise Lavelle
The Roots of Amerta Movement: An Introduction to the Movement Improvisation of Suprapto Suryodarmo
Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto) died in 2019. He devoted his life to developing, embodying, teaching and sharing his practice of Amerta Movement, which, in his own words, is not only a language for communication but also an expression of being. Prapto worked...- $30.00
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Vendor: Lawrence Kramer
Classical Music in a Changing World: Crisis and Vital Signs
In recent years classical music has become a test case for debates over the future of culture. As times have changed, the value traditionally placed on this music has been challenged on social rather than aesthetic grounds. Lovers of classical music have been asked...- $49.00
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Vendor: Brian Getnick
Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles
In the summer of 2016, NS, the performance art journal of Los Angeles, brought together 35 performance artists, scholars, and activists to discuss the impact of the ongoing AIDS crisis on queer communities and performance culture in Los Angeles. Throughout that four-day event, participants...- $20.00
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Vendor: Shaun Gallagher
Performance/Art: The Venetian Lectures
Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance, ranging from athletics to the performing arts, including music, dance and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of studies concerning different degrees of mindful awareness operative in performance, and builds on the concept of a meshed architecture, suggesting...- $13.99
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Vendor: Paisid Aramphongphan
Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York
Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book uses a...- $130.00
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Vendor: Jeppe Ugelvig
Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion
An exhilarating scrapbook of the 1990s fashion-art scene in New York and Paris, with Bernadette Corporation, Susan Cianciolo, BLESS and DISIn this unprecedented volume, the New York- and London-based critic and curator Jeppe Ugelvig recounts a little-explored history of art/fashion hybridity through the genre-defying...- $45.00
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Vendor: Valerie Chepp
Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism
The twenty-first century is already riddled with protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards are young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics....- $30.95
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Vendor: Benedict Morrison
Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema
Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too frequently sought to explain this complexity away by stitching the parts together in totalizing readings. This stitching together has often relied on the...- $90.00
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Vendor: Lynn Sally
Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation
The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque artist Lynn Sally offers...- $58.00
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Vendor: Marcel Dzama
Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets
Eclectic and fantastic: the unique artistic world of the Canadian artistMarcel Dzama first gained fame with his drawings, but has recently expanded his practice to encompass film and three-dimensional work, developing an immediately recognizable language that draws from a diverse range of references and...- $24.95
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Vendor: J. Machon
Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance
This comprehensive text is the first survey to explore the theory, history and practice of immersive theatre. Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, Josephine Machon shares her wealth of expertise in the field of contemporary performance, inviting the reader to immerse themselves...- $37.95
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Vendor: Constance Dejong
Constance Dejong: Reader
The first anthology of the multivocal, narrational, performative writings of the intermedia pioneer, who has quietly influenced generations of New York artists and writers from Kathy Acker to Ellie GaA leading figure of the 1970s and '80s downtown New York performance scene, Constance DeJong...- $20.00
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Vendor: Mieke Bal
Narratology in Practice
Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Written as a companion to Mieke Bal's international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, in which the examples focus almost exclusively on literary...- $35.95
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Vendor: Shari Shaw
The Positive Path for Actors: How to Stop Second-Guessing Your Talent & Start Kicking A$$ in Your Career
Acting isn't just a job, it's a way of life. It makes you open your heart, expose your vulnerabilities and share your authentic self... over and over again. If you want to be the kind of performer who has an endless well of inspiration,...- $17.99
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Vendor: Richard J. Prof Hand
Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror
Since The Th蛯tre du Grand-Guignol closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at...- $30.00
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Vendor: Reza Abdoh
Reza Abdoh
Over a brief, 12-year career, Iranian-born, New York-based director and playwright Reza Abdoh (1963-95) broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory dreamscapes shot through with humor, song and spirituality. His productions addressed the...- $54.60
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Vendor: Craig Higginson
Dream of the Dog
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shortly after the millennium. Patricia and Richard Wiley, an elderly white couple, are packing up to leave the farm they've sold to developers. Their preparations are interrupted by the arrival of a young man - 'Look Smart' - who used to...- $14.95
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Vendor: Wesley Van Tassel
Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition)
"A workhorse of a book Beautifully conceived and executed. Clues to Acting Shakespeare is a no-brainer purchase for acting collections in all libraries." --Library Journal Clues to Acting Shakespeare has become a popular guide for actors, directors, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, selling over 15,000...- $18.99
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Vendor: Keli Semelsberger
Improv Shaman: The Transformative Journey of Divine Play
Improv comedy is known as a challenging comedic performance art, which Keli has been teaching, directing and performing for over a quarter of a century. As Keli expanded her world view by traveling to sacred places and training with master spiritual teachers, she came...- $9.99
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Vendor: Sara Blaylock
Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany
How East German artists made their country's experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the Stasi's prying...- $34.95
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Vendor: Jane Grant
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art
Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition. Emerging from a liminal space between movements of thought and practice in the twentieth century, sound art has often been described in terms of the things that it is understood to have left behind:...- $165.00
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Vendor: J. Blake Fichera
Scored to Death 2: More Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers
Following in the spirit and style of Scored to Death (2016), his popular first book of interviews with horror music greats, J. Blake Fichera's Scored to Death 2 collects 16 brand-new, info-packed, terrifyingly entertaining interviews with renowned composers who have provided the music for...- $24.95
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Vendor: Victoria Howard
Clackamas Chinook Performance Art: Verse Form Interpretations
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Victoria Howard was born around 1865, a little more than ten years after the founding of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in western Oregon. Howardʼs...- $60.00
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Vendor: Fu Jin
A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century II
The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and Eastern theatres all contributed to...- $170.00
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Vendor: Jaanika Peerna
Glacier Elegies
An in-depth look at Jaanika Peerna's iconic work, through essays, images of works and performances, and the artist's own words. Much of Jaanika Peerna's recent work is a lament to glaciers and natural ice. Her ongoing project Glacier Elegy forms the central core of...- $28.95
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Vendor: Museum Folkwang
Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance & Protest
A transcultural history of more than 120 years of art and dance. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Global Groove outlines how encounters between Western and Eastern societies gave rise to new expressive forms in art, dance, performance, and design, and what influence this has had...- $60.00
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Vendor: Ace Lehner
Self Representation in an Expanded Field
Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise...- $86.66
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