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Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (198 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783204175
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Practising the Real on the Contemporary StageDDC classification:
  • 792.01
LOC classification:
  • PN2039
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Reality and the Visible -- Real and Virtual -- The Irruption of the Real -- Iconoclastic Theatre -- At the Limits of Representation -- Genocides -- History and Memory -- The Performance of Others -- The Real Is Relational -- Essayism and Representation -- Conclusion: Theatre and Reality -- Appendix: Ethics of Representation -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: An analysis of reality and 'the real' as presented in contemporary artistic creation, Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage examines the responses given by performing arts to the importance placed on reality beyond representation. This book proposes four historic itineraries defined by the ways in which the issue of the real is addressed: the representation of visible reality and its paradoxes, the place of the real on the lived body, the limits placed on representation by experiences of pain and death, and those practices that denounce the real. Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage will be warmly welcomed by scholars of aesthetics and contemporary artistic practice.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Reality and the Visible -- Real and Virtual -- The Irruption of the Real -- Iconoclastic Theatre -- At the Limits of Representation -- Genocides -- History and Memory -- The Performance of Others -- The Real Is Relational -- Essayism and Representation -- Conclusion: Theatre and Reality -- Appendix: Ethics of Representation -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

An analysis of reality and 'the real' as presented in contemporary artistic creation, Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage examines the responses given by performing arts to the importance placed on reality beyond representation. This book proposes four historic itineraries defined by the ways in which the issue of the real is addressed: the representation of visible reality and its paradoxes, the place of the real on the lived body, the limits placed on representation by experiences of pain and death, and those practices that denounce the real. Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage will be warmly welcomed by scholars of aesthetics and contemporary artistic practice.

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