Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
theorizing performer-object interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold |
Author: |
PaavolainenTeemu., |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
Place of Publication: |
New York, NY |
Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
Year of Publication: |
2012 |
Edition: |
1st ed. |
Description: |
1 online resource (xiii, 283 p.)ill. : |
Series: |
Cognitive studies in literature and performance |
Subject: |
Theater - Philosophy. - |
Subject: |
Cognition. - |
Subject: |
Experimental theater. - |
Personal Subject: |
Me�ierkhol�d - V. �E. - Criticism and interpretation. - |
Personal Subject: |
Grotowski - Jerzy - Criticism and interpretation. - |
Personal Subject: |
Kantor - Tadeusz - Criticism and interpretation. - |
Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137277923An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
Summary: |
Theatrical meanings are enacted in onstage 'ecologies' of actors and objects irrespective of spoken language. Applying the concepts of affordances and image schemas to extensive analyses of Vsevolod Meyerhold's The Magnanimous Cuckold (1922), Jerzy Grotowski's Akropolis (1962-69), and Tadeusz Kantor's Let the Artists Die! (1985), Paavolainen also traces intriguing continuities from their cultural contexts, through the directors' philosophies, to international reviews and scholarship. Artificial divisions of mind over matter and subjects over objects are rejected for the ecological grounding of all cognition: understood as fundamentally embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive, mind also is ultimately performed in the world. |
ISBN: |
9781137277923electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
1137277920electronic bk. |
Content Note: |
Introduction Agents and objects: a primer to concepts and approaches The Meyerhold case: scaffolding action and interpretation The Polish case: poor theatre/s and cultural ecology Grotowski and the "objectivity" of performance Pillories to barricade: Kantor's infernal ecologies Epilogue: performing humanity: tensions and continuities. |