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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic has been redefining art for nearly forty years. Using her body as a vehicle, she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. This is a mesmerizing journey into the world of radical performance and an intimate portrait of an astonishingly magnetic, endlessly intriguing woman who draws no distinction between life and art.
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Very short introductions volume 74
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"Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political...
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El sonido se ha instalado intensa y cualitativamente en todos los ámbitos de la vida, siendo actualmente valorado como un renovado material con una enorme disponibilidad plástica. Con las invenciones en las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y principios del XX de los medios audio-mecánicos y electro-acústicos, y los desarrollos en tecnologías audio-numéricas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y principios del XXI, hemos avanzado en su comprensión...
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A celebration in words and pictures, 20@OMI offers a vivid portrait of a renowned international, nonprofit arts center in upstate New York. This handsome, lavishly illustrated volume recounts how Art Omi grew from its modest beginnings as an artists' residency program in a converted barn into a thriving arts center boasting four artists residency programs, a sculpture park, a spectacular new visitors' center and year-round arts education for local...
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Strings Attached is a lavishly illustrated book containing four (4) essays by noted experts that trace the tradition of Czech puppetry and discuss its relationship to America puppetry. Included are essays discussing the National Museum, Prague, and puppet theaters, museums, collections, organizations, and publications in the Czech Republic. The book accompanied an exhibition of the same name, held at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art from March 8...
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Hablar del entrenamiento vocal del actor es hablar de la condición humana. De esto sabe Kristin Linklater, creadora del método conocido como freeing the natural voice.
A pesar de desobedecer la sugerencia de su maestra en cuanto a nunca escribir sobre el tema, porque cada individuo que experimenta con su voz y cada clase, son experiencias únicas, Kristin comprendió que había de compartir su vasto conocimiento sobre la voz hablada del actor y...
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Ce livre rassemble des observations et des réflexions sur l'art performance au Québec et sur la scène internationale. L'auteur a voulu comprendre une forme d'art déroutante, la démarche de quelques performeurs importants, pénétrer leur univers d'un point de vue théorique, mais aussi de les rejoindre dans une pratique qu'il lui a été donné d'enseigner.
La 1 re partie examine l'éthique de la performance comme démarche pour se créer une...
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There are countless books out there teaching the nuts and bolts of acting; the craft, the business and so on. However, as a young actor, just starting out on my path, I wanted something more. Life as an artist is unlike that of any other career path. There's no straight line to achieving your goals. And being an artist is not the type of job you can simply leave at the office come 5 o'clock. It's so much a part of who you are and seeps into every...
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xxiii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
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Draws on the examples of chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens to outline a powerful approach to learning that enables proficiency through strategic goal setting, self-motivation, and feedback exercises.
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1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who met as Harlem chorus girls in the 1930s. During the Harlem Renaissance they performed with legendary band leaders like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington at the famed Apollo Theater and Cotton Club, and have rich stories to tell us about the history they made, illuminated by a trove of archival film and photos.
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Enfrentados a la noción de progreso y al umbral evolutivo de la inteligencia artificial que alimentan los imaginarios sobre nuestro futuro, las reflexiones y los ensayos que reúne este libro buscan fundar un nuevo paisaje crítico, en la zona donde se encuentran el arte, la teoría crítica y la tecnología. Un paisaje lleno de innovación, profundamente latinoamericano, ensamblado con los artefactos de vanguardia del presente, donde la obra de...
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Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation scrutinizes the form of the recipe, using it as a means to explore a multitude of subjects in post-war Western art and culture, including industrial mass-production, consumerism, hidden labour, and art engaged with the everyday. Each chapter is presented as a dish in a nine-course meal, drawing on examples from published cookbooks and the work of artists such as Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Annette Messager,...
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xx, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In Extreme Productivity, Pozen reveals the secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. His book is for anyone feeling overwhelmed by an existing workload-facing myriad competing demands and multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a calendar full of boring meetings and a backlog of e-mails, Extreme Productivity explains how to determine your highest priorities and match them with how you actually spend your time.
Pozen...
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359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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Discover more than 70 of the most famous ballet dances, from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake to The Rite of Spring. Learn the stories behind renowned companies such as The Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet. Explore the lives and achievements of dancers across the centuries, such as Margot Fonteyn, Carlos Acosta, and Darcey Bussell. Meet composers and choreographers, from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to Matthew Bourne. From its origins at court and the...
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1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"The Sleeping Beauty remains, as Rudolf Nureyev often called it, the 'ballet of ballets'. It is the most accomplished and the most brilliant, as well as one of the most spectacular of the 19th century, and the most representative of the 'noble' style of classical dancing. Rudolf Nureyev's version, which he created for the Opéra Ballet in 1989, was recorded at the Opéra Bastille in 1999, in a new production (sets and costumes) created by his faithful...
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