Performance: A Critical Introduction

by Marvin Carlson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.39

  Performance: A Critical Introduction is the first survey to provide an overview of the modern concept of performance and how it has developed in various fields. In a highly accessible style Marvin Carlson introduces the reader to the contested interpretations of performance art as a theatrical activity and to the ways that performance has been understood by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists and cultural theorists. Some of the topics he discusses include:
  * the evolution of performance art since the 1960s
  * developments of performance as a concept within the various social sciences
  * the relationships between performance, postmodernism and the politics of identity
  For any student of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history, Performance: A Critical Introduction provides a vital insight into the diverse meanings and uses of performance