The Knowing Body: The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance - Softcover

Steinman, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155643202X ISBN 13: 9781556432026

Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S., 1995

Synopsis

Steinman's book really stands alone among performance art books. While there are many that document what particular artists are doing, this one offers a way in for a person who wants to perform (or know more about how performance artists work). Must reading for anyone interested in performance art, it will also be fascinating to those in theatre, playwriting, visual arts and performance of any sort.

About this title

Product Description:

Rare Book

Review:

"In the territory Steinman explores--risk, play, improvisation, the dual image of the performer and persona--her fine prose builds firmly, gracefully and movingly to what she considers the basic, too often unacknowledged function of the performer as storyteller: 'to remind us of our mortality.'"
--Deborah Jowitt

..".a visceral experience, a temporal tome that transcends the limits of a 'good read.' Most readers will come away from The Knowing Body with an enriched sense of their own movement through the world as well as a greater understanding of the work of many new artists."
--Morrie Warshawski

About this edition

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 155643202X
• ISBN 13: 9781556432026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176