Conversations on Art and Performance
Bonnie Marranca, Gautam Dasgupta
1999
In this fascinating collection of more than three-dozen conversations on contemporary art and ideas, Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta bring together influential performers, video artists, playwrights, filmmakers, composers, and critics to talk about the artistic process, the perception of artworks by audiences, and the complex aesthetic, social, and political interrelationships that artworks reflect in the life of a culture. At the centre of inquiry are issues that have preoccupied arts discussion in the last quarter of the century, addressed here by the very artists and thinkers responsible for extending the boundaries of their chosen fields in their search for new artistic and critical languages. Conversations takes up a broad range of key questions. What is the nature of presence? How does one see? Where does meaning reside? Topics include the creative process, the impact of criticism and historical legacies, arts funding and education, the modernism/postmodernism debates, and the special tensions between private and public spheres and between personal statement and the need for communication. This lively reader includes introductions, by the founders of PAJ, to each of the conversations, highlighting their original context and important themes.
Identifier
L0133Call Number
PN1584.C64 1999Extent
xiv, 503 pages ; softcover 24 cmLanguage
ISBN
0801859255Place of Publication
Baltimore, MDPublication Type
PrintContributor
Susan Sontag, Robert Jay Lifton, Harold Clurman, Stanley Kauffmann, Herbert Blau, Johannes Birringer, Gerald Rabkin, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, John Cage, Richard Kostenlanetz, Hilton Kramer, Edward Said, Umberto Eco, Robert Wilson, Charles L. Mee, Philip Glass, Mac Wellman, John Ashbery, Michael Earley, John Guare, David Mamet, Wallace Shawn, Steve Tesich, Michael Weller, Richard Peaslee, Stanley Silverman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Ludlam, Elinor Fuchs, Carolee Schneemann, Rachel Rosenthal, Trisha Brown, Douglas Brown, Kenneth King, Gary Hill, Jerry Rojo, Laurie Anderson, Scott Burton, Elizabeth LeCompte, Ruth Maleczech, Michael Smith, Edwin Denby, Bessie Schoenberg, Ellen Stewart, Joseph Chaikin, Lee Breuer, Bruce D. Schwartz, Theodora Skipitares, Julie Taymor, Richard Elovich, Karen Finley, Ishmael Houston-Jones, John Kelly, Charles AtlasPublisher
Johns Hopkins University PressCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright 1999 The Johns Hopkins University Press.