art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Everything and Other Performance Texts from Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780857426123, Seagull Books, September 2019
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
In "Everything: And Other Performance Texts from Germany", Matt Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theater collectives working today: andcompany&Co., Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, She She Pop, and Showcase Beat...
PB:
£30,00
QTY:
Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones
For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...
PB:
£26,00
QTY:
HB:
£79,00
QTY:
Season in the Congo
ISBN: PB: 9780857424877, ISBN: HB: 9781905422944, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. "A Season in the Congo" follows Lumumba's efforts to free the...
PB:
£12,99
QTY:
HB:
£13,50
QTY:
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...
PB:
£16,00
QTY:
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...
PB:
£30,00
QTY:
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...
HB:
£24,00
QTY:
Lidless
ISBN: PB: 9780300160307, ISBN: HB: 9780300169423, Yale University Press, September 2010
96 pp., 21x14 cm
It's been fifteen years since Guantanamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U. S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and dema...
PB:
£15,00
QTY:
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Eternal Performance Taziyah and Other Shiite Rituals
ISBN: HB: 9781906497514, Seagull Books, January 2010
364 pp., 24.1x16.8 cm, 90 halftones
Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala – a windswept desert plain that is now a town in present-day Iraq – where, according to tradition, Hussein, the belo...
HB:
£26,50
QTY:
Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781563684098, Gallaudet University Press, June 2009
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos
After spending three years in The National Theatre of the Deaf performing plays by hearing authors featuring hearing characters, Willy Conley realized that he wanted to write plays with deaf, hard-of- hearing, and hearing characters created from the...
PB:
£45,00
QTY:
Bells of Change Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity In India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422487, Seagull Books, September 2008
240 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 13 halftones
This is the first critical study of Kathak dance. "Bells of Change" traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to...
PB:
£22,50
QTY: