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Rituals of Rented Island Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780300195866, Yale University Press, December 2013
176 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 140 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: "object theater" (in which artists engage directly with the objects in the world around them); "loft performance" (where artists performed in lofts, s...
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£20,00
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Beautiful Province
ISBN: PB: 9780300195460, Yale University Press, December 2013
144 pp., 21x14 cm
A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo's mesmerizing...
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£16,00
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Beijing Xingwei Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art
ISBN: PB: 9780857420879, Seagull Books, December 2013
420 pp., 25x15 cm, 50 halftones, 100 colour illus.
From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contem...
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£30,00
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Instructions for Breathing and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857421111, Seagull Books, December 2013
254 pp., 25x15 cm
By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina-American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decades of boundary-breaking and genre-defying dramatic work. Populated by characters struggling to survive, these plays ar...
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£19,00
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Anna Pavlova Twentieth Century Ballerina
ISBN: HB: 9781861543356, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2013
208 pp., 26.4x20 cm, 150 black&white illus.
Anna Pavlova is a legendary ballerina. Originally from the Imperial Russian Ballet, she performed to great acclaim in Europe for various impresarios at the beginning of the 20th century including Sergei Diaghilev creator of the famous Ballets Russes....
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£25,00
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Bigger, Brighter, Louder 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
ISBN: HB: 9780226059266, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
The first known "Chicago Tribune" theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements – one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load...
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£20,50
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Cycle A Practical Approach to Managing Arts Organizations
ISBN: HB: 9781611684001, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2013
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the third book of his popular trilogy on creating and sustaining arts organizations, Michael Kaiser reveals the hidden engine that powers consistent success. According to Kaiser, successful arts organizations pursue strong programmatic marketing c...
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£24,00
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There and Then Personal Terms 6
ISBN: PB: 9781847771407, Carcanet, July 2013
216 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm
We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pushed through the curtained doorway, like instrumentalists without instruments, and onto the stepped stage. The audience was still coming in. Uncertain of...
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£18,95
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Overweight Sensation The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman
ISBN: HB: 9781611682564, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and into the American mainstream with explosively funny parodies of classic songs that won Sherman extrao...
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£24,00
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Pop Goes the Avant-Garde Experimental Theater in Contemporary China
ISBN: PB: 9780857420459, Seagull Books, April 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
"Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China" is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theater in the People's Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical pers...
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£19,00
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