Beyond Text: Theater and Performance in Print After 1900 - Hardcover

Buckley, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472074253 ISBN 13: 9780472074259

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2019

Synopsis

Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education

Taking up the work of prominent theater and performance artists, Beyond Text reveals the audacity and beauty of avant-garde performance in print. With extended analyses of the works of Edward Gordon Craig, German expressionist Lothar Schreyer, the Living Theatre, Carolee Schneemann, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the book shows how live performance and print aesthetically revived one another during a period in which both were supposed to be in a state of terminal cultural decline. While the European and American avant-gardes did indeed dismiss the dramatic author, they also adopted print as a theatrical medium, altering the status, form, and function of text and image in ways that continue to impact both the performing arts and the book arts.
 
Beyond Text participates in the ongoing critical effort to unsettle conventional historical and theoretical accounts of text-performance relations, which have too often been figured in binary, chronological (“from page to stage”), or hierarchical terms. Across five case studies spanning twelve decades, Beyond Text demonstrates that print―as noun and verb―has been integral to the practices of modern and contemporary theater and performance artists.

 

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Buckley is Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472074253
• ISBN 13: 9780472074259
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292