The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130927
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis The Very Thought of Herbert Blau by : Clark Lunberry

Download or read book The Very Thought of Herbert Blau written by Clark Lunberry and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Blau (1926–2013) was the most influential theater theorist, practitioner, and educator of his generation. He was the leading American interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett and as a director was instrumental in introducing works of the European avant-garde to American audiences. He was also one of the most far-reaching and thoughtful American theorists of theater and performance, and author of influential books such as The Dubious Spectacle, The Audience, and Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point. In The Very Thought of Herbert Blau, distinguished artists and scholars offer reflections on what made Blau's contributions so visionary, transformative, and unforgettable, and why his ideas endure in both seminar rooms and studios. The contributors, including Lee Breuer, Sue-Ellen Case, Gautam Dasgupta, Elin Diamond, S. E. Gontarski, Linda Gregerson, Martin Harries, Bill Irwin, Julia Jarcho, Anthony Kubiak, Daniel Listoe, Clark Lunberry, Bonnie Marranca, Peggy Phelan, Joseph Roach, Richard Schechner, Morton Subotnick, Julie Taymor, and Gregory Whitehead, respond to Blau's fierce and polymorphous intellect, his relentless drive and determination, and his audacity, his authority, to think, as he frequently insisted, "at the very nerve ends of thought."

Blooded Thought

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Publisher : New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Blooded Thought by : Herbert Blau

Download or read book Blooded Thought written by Herbert Blau and published by New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the nature of drama and performance, linking contemporary thinking in theatrical and literary theory, politics and the sciences. Blau's essays illuminate crucial issues in today's theatre: the place of language and the dramatization of thought.

Programming Theater History

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136343261
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis Programming Theater History by : Herbert Blau

Download or read book Programming Theater History written by Herbert Blau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One of the great stories of the American theater..., the Workshop not only built an international reputation with its daring choice of plays and nontraditional productions, it also helped launch a movement of regional, or resident, companies that would change forever how Americans thought about and consumed theater.’ – Elin Diamond, from the Introduction Herbert Blau founded, with Jules Irving, the legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, in 1952, starting with ten people in a loft above a judo academy. Over the course of the next 13 years and its hundred or so productions, it introduced American audiences to plays by Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Genet, Arden, Fornes, and various unknown others. Most of the productions were accompanied by a stunningly concise and often provocative programme note by Blau. These documents now comprise, within their compelling perspective, a critique of the modern theatre. They vividly reveal what these now canonical works could mean, first time round, and in the context of 1950s and 60s American culture, in the shadow of the Cold War. Programming Theater History curates these notes, with a selection of the Workshop's incrementally artful, alluring programme covers, Blau's recollections, and evocative production photographs, into a narrative of indispensable artefacts and observations. The result is an inspiring testimony by a giant of American performance theory and practice, and a unique reflection of what it is to create theatre history in the present.

Nothing in Itself

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253335876
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (358 download)

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Book Synopsis Nothing in Itself by : Herbert Blau

Download or read book Nothing in Itself written by Herbert Blau and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Herbert Blau suggests, in Nothing in Itself, is that fashion itself, today, has been anticipating and redefining, in the dazzle on the runway, or even in ready-to-wear, the terms in which it is critiqued, while sometimes giving the impression that it is inseparable from critique; in short, there is little to be said of fashion that is not somehow visible in fashion, though even in the mainstream we may call it antifashion. Which is all the more reason to look at the clothes. The book does so copiously, with a fastidious eye to style, as if nothing could be said of a garment, no appropriate fabric of thought, without the felt sensation.

Reality Principles

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051512
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Reality Principles written by Herbert Blau and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA panoramic view of how we think about life and the imitation of life on stage/div

The Dubious Spectacle

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816638123
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Dubious Spectacle written by Herbert Blau and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau-his directing, writing, and criticism-has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. Blau's struggle to bring a critical intelligence to the American stage goes back half a century, to the quiescent postwar years (which he has eloquently described in The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto). His innovations in performance began with early productions of now-canonical plays that were hardly known at that time (works by Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, Duerrenmatt, and others). His experience is as distinctive as his versatile habits of mind and conceptual urgency of style. If the impossible takes a little time (as the title of one essay states), Blau's struggle now continues in a theoretical vein. Performance-and his own compelling writing- has moved across other genres and disciplines into fashion, politics, sexuality, and theory. His diversity of thought is demonstrated here in commentaries about the newer modes of performance (including conceptual and body art), various American playwrights, Renaissance drama, new music and theater, voice, the senses and the baroque, and the photographic image. As the essays reflect upon each other, a kind of cultural history, with inflections of autobiography, develops-which is what readers of Blau's previous books have come to expect.

Performance and Cultural Politics

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136165886
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis Performance and Cultural Politics by : Elin Diamond

Download or read book Performance and Cultural Politics written by Elin Diamond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.

The Audience

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Audience written by Herbert Blau and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

As If

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027557
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book As If written by Herbert Blau and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As If: An Autobiography traces the complex life and career of director, scholar, and theorist Herbert Blau, one of the most innovative voices in the American theater. From his earliest years on the streets of Brooklyn, with gang wars there, to the often embattled, now-legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, the powerfully told story of Blau's first four decades is also a social history, moving from the Great Depression to the cold war, with fallout from "the balance of terror" on what he once described in an incendiary manifesto as The Impossible Theater. Blau has always forged his own path, from his activist resistance to the McCarthy witch hunts to his emergence as a revolutionary director whose work included the controversial years at The Workshop, which introduced American audiences to major playwrights of the European avant-garde, including Brecht, Beckett, Genet, and Pinter. There is also an account here of that notorious production of Waiting for Godot at the maximum-security prison at San Quentin, which became the insignia of the Theater of the Absurd. Blau went on from The Workshop to become codirector of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, and then founding provost of California Institute of the Arts, where he developed and became artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN. Currently Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington, Blau has been visionary in the passage from theater to theory, and his many influential and award-winning books include The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976–2000; Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett; Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion; To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance; The Audience; The Eye of Prey: Subversions of the Postmodern; and Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point. This richly evocative book includes never-before-published photographs of the author, his family and friends, collaborators in the theater, and theater productions.

On Beckett

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Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285807
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book On Beckett written by S. E. Gontarski and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century – countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. “On Beckett” brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely read essays there are contributions from more obscure sources, viewpoints not frequently seen. Together they allow the reader to enter the world of a writer whose work has left an impact on the consciousness of our time perhaps unmatched by that of any other recent creative imagination.

The Player's Passion

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472082445
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Player's Passion written by Joseph R. Roach and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage

The Book, Spiritual Instrument

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Book Synopsis The Book, Spiritual Instrument by : Jerome Rothenberg

Download or read book The Book, Spiritual Instrument written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 essays on the subject. With contributions by Mallerme, Stephen Lansing, David Guss, Karl Young, Dennis Tedlock, Becky Cohen, Jed Rasula, Alison Knowles, George Quasha, Tina Oldknow, Dick Higgins, Edmond Jabes, Paul Eluard, Gershom Scholem, and Herbert Blau.

The Impossible Theater

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Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The Impossible Theater written by Herbert Blau and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1964 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author critiques contemporary American theater.

Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066353
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)

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Book Synopsis Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime by : Timothy Murray

Download or read book Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime written by Timothy Murray and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable collection of theater commentary by a wide range of leading French theorists, in English translation

Take Up the Bodies

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Publisher : Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Take Up the Bodies by : Herbert Blau

Download or read book Take Up the Bodies written by Herbert Blau and published by Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beckett at 100

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195325478
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Beckett at 100 written by Linda Ben-Zvi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading international Beckett scholars from ten countries, who take on the centenary challenge of "revolving it all": that is, going "back to Beckett"-the title of an earlier study by critic Ruby Cohn, to whom the book is dedicated-in order to rethink traditional readings and theories; provide new contexts and associations; and reassess his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to future generations.These original essays, most first presented by the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the Dublin centenary celebration, are divided into three sections: (1) Thinking through Beckett, (2) Shifting Perspectives, and (3) Echoing Beckett. As repeatedly in his canon, images precede words. The book opens with stills from films of experimental filmmaker Peter Gidal and unpublished excerpts from Beckett's 1936-37 German Travel Diaries, presented by Beckett biographer James Knowlson, with permission from the Beckett estate.Renowned director and theatre theoretician Herbert Blau follows with his personal Beckett "thinking through." Others in Part I explore Beckett and philosophy (Abbott), the influences of Bergson (Gontarski) and Leibniz (Mori), Beckett and autobiography (Locatelli), and Agamben on post-Holocaust testimony (Jones). Essays in Part II recontextualize Beckett's works in relation to iconography (Moorjani), film theoretician Rudolf Arnheim (Engelberts), Marshall McLuhan (Ben-Zvi), exilic writing (McMullan), Pierre Bourdieu's literary field (Siess), romanticism (Brater), social theorists Adorno and Horkheimer (Degani-Raz), and performance issues (Rodriguez-Gago). Part III relates Beckett's writing to that of Yeats (Okamuro), Paul Auster (Campbell), Caryl Churchill (Diamond), William Saroyan (Bryden), Minoru Betsuyaku and Harold Pinter (Tanaka) and Morton Feldman and Jasper Johns (Laws). Finally, Beckett himself becomes a character in other playwrights' works (Zeifman). Taken together these essays make a clear case for the challenges and rewards of thinking through Beckett in his second century.

Living with His Camera

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822331025
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Living with His Camera by : Jane Gallop

Download or read book Living with His Camera written by Jane Gallop and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting Blau's photos and Gallop's text, this is a portrait of a couple whse professional activity is part of their private lives and whose private life is view through their professional gazes. 27 photos.