Disability and contemporary performance bodies on edge
Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winn...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
2003, c2004.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628111706719 |
| Summary: | Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-169) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136500404 9781315016214 9780415302388 9781136500336 |
