Conversations on Art and Performance by Bonnie Marranca (9780801859250)

Description - Conversations on Art and Performance by Bonnie Marranca

In this 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. The conversations take up a range of 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. The reader includes introductions to each of the conversations, highlighting their original context and important themes. Organized into three sections - "Art and its Audience", "Writers and Composers" and "Bodies of Work" - this volume includes more than 50 individual contributors.
These include John Cage, Gary Hill, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco, Philip Glass, Stanley Kauffmann, Edwin Denby, Irene Fornes, Robert Wilson, Herbert Blau, John Guare, Judith Malina and Wallace Shawn.

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