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Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject, A Reader

Editor: Fabio Cleto | Reference: P1751 | ISBN: 0-472-06722-2 | Type: Publication

Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.

Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook

Editor: Richard Drain | Reference: P1755 | ISBN: 0-415-09620-0 | Type: Publication

Richard Drain, Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook, performance studies, featuring performance texts and critical essays from a range of sources.

Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook

Artist/Author: Alison Oddey | Reference: P1743 | ISBN: 978-0-415-04900-9 | Type: Publication

A practical handbook that combines a critical analysis of contemporary devised theatre practice with descriptions of selected companies, and suggestions for any group devising theatre from scratch.

Backpages: In Memoriam, David Bradby

Artist/Author: David Bradby | Editor: Caridad Svich | Reference: A0460 | ISBN: ISSN 1048-6801 | Type: Article

Personal tributes from practitioners and colleagues

Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire

Artist/Author: Jennifer Doyle | Reference: P1690 | ISBN: 0-8166-4526-4 | Type: Publication

Explores how sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life.

Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory

Editor: Andre Lepecki | Reference: P1738 | ISBN: 0-8195-6612-8 | Type: Publication

Focuses on the historical, cultural and political contexts that inform choreographic and dance practices and critical readings of dance-in other words, how dance operates as critical discourse.

What Is Live Art?

Artist/Author: Joshua Sofaer | Digital Reference: DB0038 | Type: Digital File

Good Luck Everybody. Lone Twin Journeys Performances Conversations

Editor: David Williams, Carl Lavery | Reference: P1619 | ISBN: 978-1-906499-02-0 | Type: Publication

The book contextualises, documents and analyses Lone Twin’s work. It explores their interest in live performance, journeys, places, language, narrative and image, and includes original interviews, essays, performance texts and photographs.

This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

The Emancipated Spectator

Artist/Author: Jacques Ranciere | Reference: P1590 | ISBN: 978-1-84467-343-8 | Type: Publication

Asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, Rancière goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

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