Performance and Philosophy - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Performing Arts

by Ola Johansson

The dissertation explores interpretive conditions of contemporary performance art and interdisciplinary studies. It sets out with a discussion of Richard Foreman's I've Got the Shakes (1995), which is perceived as a paradigmatic example of postmoderm performance. The event exposes two contradictory practices: one pertaining to a postmodernist mode of performance and the other to a culture-historic practice of ritual. This conflict leads to the interpretive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3639047893
• ISBN13: 9783639047899
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"