Performance: A Critical Introduction
By Marvin Carlson.
Description
Performance: A Critical Introduction is the first survey to provide an overview of the modern concept of performance and how it has developed in various fields. In a highly accessible style Marvin Carlson introduces the reader to the contested interpretations of performance art as a theatrical activity and to the ways that performance has been understood by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists and cultural theorists. Some of the topics he discusses include:* the evolution of performance art since the 1960s* developments of performance as a concept within the various social sciences* th...
ISBN(s)
0415137039, 9780415137034
