Product Description: This special issue investigates the role of Futurism in the /uvre of a number of women artists and writers, including women actively supporting Futurism (e.g. R?zena Zatkova, Edyth von Haynau, Olga Rozanova, Eva Kuhn), others periodically involved with the movement (e...read more

Product Description: In the past 20 years, there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in Futurism in most countries formerly situated east of the Iron Curtain. Although Russian Futurism was always well-known, the multifaceted extensions of Futurism in other Eastern countries were not much reported on in Italy and became nearly forgotten after 1945...read more

A collection of major critical writings by a founder of the Futurist movement includes the 'First Futurist Manifesto' and offers insight into how he endeavored to bridge a gap between art and life while bringing aesthetic innovations into the real world through his polemical writings and political activities.

How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it impact on the performing arts? How did the avant-garde challenge the artistic establishment and avoid the pull of commercial theatre, gallery and concert-hall circuits? How did performance artists respond to new technological developments? Placing key figures and performances in their historical, social and aesthetic context, Günter Berghaus offers an accessible introduction to post-war avant-garde performance. Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by text boxes and illustrations throughout, this volume explains the complex ideas behind avant-garde art and evocatively brings to life the work of some of its most influential performance artists.Covering hot topics such as multi-media and body art performances, this text is essential reading for students of theatre studies and performance.

Product Description: Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Performance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both historical and systematic connections between ritual and theatre, present the work of contemporary artists, and reflect on the role and meaning of ritual for theatrical purposes in the late 20th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Italian Futurist Theatre provides an overview of the theatrical activities of the Italian Futurist movement, headed by F. T. Marinetti. It analyzes the theory and practice of Futurist performance, covers the theatre work of all leading artists and writers of the movement, and discusses the main aims and achievements of their theatrical experiments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars waged against other countries. However, much less attention has been paid to the strategies of persuasion employed by the regimes to win over the masses for their cause...read more

Product Description: The first part of this text studies the aesthetic and ideological currents with which Marinetti came into contact during his early, pre-Futurist, career. The second part focuses on Marinetti's early publications, showing how he assimilated his sources and how he progressively assembled the basic ingredients of the Futurist manifesto...read more

Product Description: The volume deals with a variety of theatrical activities of refugees from Nazi Germany in Britain and their impact, approached from a British standpoint rather than that of the emigres. The historical account of the cross-fertilization between the British theatre and film industry and the aesthetic principles and artistic traditions brought from Central Europe are discussed as is the wider philosophical problems inherent in any cultural transfer from one country to another...read more