Product Description“Robert Gard’s influence will be felt at the grassroots for decades to come. Small wonder he has been called the Johnny Appleseed of American grassroots theater. His book tells why.”-August Derleth Robert Gard’s timeless book is a moving account of one man’s struggle to bring his dream of community-building through creative [...]

Performing Arts: Music and Dance Ed by John Blacking. Papers from a Session of the 9th Intl Cong of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences, Chicago,

Product DescriptionThis book offers theoretical and practical reinterpretations of the decorative by addressing a neglected topic: the significance of decoration. Concerned with the central problem of taste, David Brett asks how individual pleasure and social function suffuse one another, drawing examples from architecture, fashion, textiles, ceramics, and the whole domain of visual and plastic arts. [...]

Maclean’s Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture

Product DescriptionIn this collection of interconnected essays, Arthur C. Danto argues that Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box of 1964 brought the established trajectory of Westen art to an end and gave rise to a pluralism which has changed the way art is made, perceived, and exhibited. Wonderfully illuminating and highly [...]

Montemayor’s Diana, music, and the visual arts

Montemayor’s Diana, music, and the visual arts

Product DescriptionNeoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Artsexplores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists—principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino—and more contemporary philosophers—Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the [...]

Product DescriptionIn the MONOGRAPHS IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, LATIN AMERICA series, a study of the origin, development and cultural background of randai, the folk theatre tradition of the Minangkabau ethnic group of West Sumatra…. More >>
Theater & Martial Arts In West Sumatra: Randai & Silek of the Minangkabau

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