The Art of Performance

The Art of Performance

Author: Jeroen De Flander

Publisher: Performance Factory

Published: 2019-08-25

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9789081487382

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In this provocative & persuasive new book, De Flander explores the mindset of the highly successful and uses 6 decades of scientific research to reveal 3 proven performance principles. Drawing on startling statistics and cutting-edge insights, he packages science into a fascinating narrative packed with irresistible and practical takeaways.


Mastering the Art of Performance

Mastering the Art of Performance

Author: Stewart Gordon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0195177436

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This manual gives musicians and other performers practical insights on every aspect of performance. Through real life examples and pre-performance exercises, Gordon also offers detailed and workable suggestions for solving the issues and problems associated with live performance.


Actors and the Art of Performance

Actors and the Art of Performance

Author: Susanne Granzer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1137596341

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Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a spectator, but also from the perspective of the actor. The author draws on her experience as both a theatre actor and a university professor whose teachings in the art of acting rely heavily on her own experience and also on her philosophical knowledge. The book is unique not only in terms of its content but also in terms of its style. Written in a multiplicity of voices, the text oscillates between philosophical reasoning and narrative forms of writing, including micro-narratives, fables, parables, and inter alia by Carroll, Hoffmann and Kleist. Hence the book claims that a trans-disciplinary dialogue between the art of acting and the art of philosophical thinking calls for an aesthetical research that questions and begins to seek alternatives to traditionally established and ingrained formats of philosophy.


The Art of Performance

The Art of Performance

Author: Heinrich Schenker

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0195122542

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Schenker was one of the most influential music theorists of the 20th century. In this essay, he turns his attention to the performer's role, arguing that the cult of the virtuoso has led to an overemphasis on technical display.


Art as Performance

Art as Performance

Author: Dave Davies

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1405143649

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In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaboratesand defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about thearts that reveals important continuities and discontinuitiesbetween traditional and modern art, and between different artisticdisciplines. Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework forthinking about the arts. Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things thatartworks are and how they are to be understood. Reveals important continuities and discontinuities betweentraditional and modern art. Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, includingtraditional theories about the nature of art, aestheticappreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artisticmeaning.


Performance Art

Performance Art

Author: RoseLee Goldberg

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in "the World of Art" series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium. Art historian and gallery curator Rose Lee Goldberg explains how a medium once used only in sporadic outbreaks of artistic dissent has become, over the course of a century, a vital and integral part of the contemporary mainstream and a global phenomenon.


The Art of Living

The Art of Living

Author: Dominic Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1137322225

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Across a series of 12 in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. From uses of body modification and physical extremity, to the creation of all-encompassing personae, to performance pieces lasting months or years, these artists have provoked and explored the vital limits between art and life. Their discussions with Johnson give us a glimpse of their artistic motivations, preoccupations, processes, and contexts. Despite the diversity of art forms and experiences featured, common threads weave between the interviews: love, friendship, commitment, death and survival. Each interview is preceded by an overview of the artist's work, and the volume itself is introduced by a thoughtful critical essay on performance art and oral history. The conversational tone of the interviews renders complex ideas and theoretical propositions accessible, making this an ideal book for students of theatre and performance, as well as for artists, scholars and general readers.


The Art of Confession

The Art of Confession

Author: Christopher Grobe

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1479882089

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"The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --


The Art & Technique of Performance

The Art & Technique of Performance

Author: Richard Provost

Publisher: Music Sales

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780962783241

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(Music Sales America). This volume teaches performance skills by examining pre-concert preparation and how to lessen perfomance anxiety. It covers practice, public relations, and concert booking as well as psychology and creativity.


The Analysis of Performance Art

The Analysis of Performance Art

Author: Anthony Howell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1134427301

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This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became popular in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules of the theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama, painting or sculpture. Taking the theory of primary and secondary colours as his model, Anthony Howell posits three primaries of action and shows how these may be mixed to obtain a secondary range of actions. Based on a taught course, the system is designed for practical use in the studio and is also entertaining to explore. Examples are cited from leading performance groups and practitioners such as Bobbie Baker, Orlan, Stelarc, Annie Sprinkle, Robert Wilson, Goat Island, and Station House Opera. This volume, however, is not just an illustrated grammar of action - it also shows how the syntax of that grammar has psychoanalytic repercussions. This enables the performer to relate the system to lived experience, ensuring a realisation that meaning is being dealt with through these actions and that the stystem set forth is more than a dry structuring of the characteristics of movement. Freud's notion of 'transference' and Lacan's understanding of 'repetition' are compared to a performer's usage of the same terms. Thus the book provides a psychoanalytic critique of performance at the same time as it outlines an efficient method for creating live work on both fine art and theatre courses.