The Performer Art, Life, Politics
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.02.2024
Verlag
VermilionSeitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
24/16/2,7 cm
Gewicht
440 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-241-63764-7
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker
The Performer explores the rich relations of the performing arts to society. It traces performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual, the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Performer ties issues together by exploring the sensory powers which the performing arts themselves share, via physical gesture and blocking onstage, lighting, costuming, scenery. Richard Sennett describes the backstage world in which players work on their bodies, and learn to cooperate non-verbally with each other in rehearsals. Sensory expression rather than art 'messages' are, The Performer asserts, the deepest ways in which the performing arts engage with the world.
Performing is a Janus-faced art. It can be destructive, as when artful demagogues seduce and degrade their followers; but it can also be creative, when art on stage widens and deepens imaginations. The book explains how the same sensory materials of this ethically impure art can be used to degrade or to enlighten the public.
The Performer draws on history and sociology, and also more personally on the author's early career as a professional cellist, and his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It is the first in a trilogy of books on the fundamental DNA of human expression: performing, narrating, and imaging.
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