Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Performance

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinnings of played-through experiences and how they affect the player/performers who engage in them.

This book explores how people play and why their play matters, with a particular interest in how ludic experiences are often constructed and controlled by the interests of institutions,...

Inclusive Arts Practice and Research interrogates an exciting and newly emergent field: the creative collaborations between learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled artists which are increasingly taking place in performance and the visual arts.

In "Inclusive Arts Practice" Alice Fox and Hannah Macpherson interview artists, curators and key practitioners in the UK and US. The authors introduce and articulate this new practice, and situate it in relation to associated approaches. Fox and Macpherson candidly describe the tensions and difficulties involved too, and explore how the work...

Inclusive Arts Practice and Research interrogates an exciting and newly emergent field: the creative collaborations between learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled artists which are increasingly taking place in performance and the visual arts.

In "Inclusive Arts Practice" Alice Fox and Hannah Macpherson interview artists, curators and key practitioners in the UK and US. The authors introduce and articulate this new practice, and situate it in relation to associated approaches. Fox and Macpherson candidly describe the tensions and difficulties involved too, and explore how the work...

-If you haven't read this book yet--buy it, take it home, and read it now This is the work that made me get off my ass and actually do something, and it will inspire you, too.---Kathleen Hanna, singer, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin

-I believe Karen Finley's un-careful rage was threatening because it is filled with grief, humor, and a profound passion for this life. Rereading it, I feel refreshed, as if I've been self-policing for years by tolerating boring, stupid things and now I'm free again. Thank you, Karen.---Miranda July, author of The First Bad...

A publishing collaboration between Gagosian Gallery and Phaidon.

An in‐depth study of painters and photographers studios with examples from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Introductory essays and catalogue entries on individual works by two experts in their respective fields John Elderfield forA"In the Studio: Paintings"Aand Peter Galassi forA"In the Studio: Photographs."

An invaluable and unprecedented art historical resource that will also appeal to a general audience.

The slipcased two‐book set accompanies simultaneous exhibitions, one each on...