Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual
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- Synopsis
- "Herbert Blau’s long sustained inquiry into theater’s most provocative questions-presence, liveness, and finitude-are, at their deepest level, queries into life. Reality Principlesreturns us to Blau’s inspiring provocations and extends them to new subjects-9/11 and Ground Zero, the nature of charisma, Pirandello and Strindberg. ” -Peggy Phelan, Stanford University Reality Principlesgathers recent essays by esteemed scholar and theater practitioner Herbert Blau covering a range of topics. The book’s provocative essays-including "The Emotional Memory of Directing,” "The Faith-Based Initiative of the Theater of the Absurd,” "Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness,” "The Human Nature of the Bot”-were given as keynotes and/or memorial lectures and are collected here for the first time. The essays take up a remarkable array of topics-from body art and the self-inflicted punishments of Stelarc, Orlan, and the Viennese Actionists, to Ground Zero and 9/11-and allow Blau to address critical questions of theater and theory, performance and relevance, the absurd and the virtual, history and illusion, community and memory. Reality Principlesoffers a panoramic view of Herbert Blau’s perspectives on life and the imitation of life on stage.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780472027903
- Publisher:
- The University of Michigan Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/24/12
- Copyrighted By:
- the University of Michigan
- Adult content:
- Yes
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.