UID:
almahu_9949385449602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003205661
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1003205666
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9781000553628
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1000553620
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1000553574
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9781000553574
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
Content:
"This book focuses attention on groups of performing people that are unique aesthetic objects, the focus of an artist's vision, but at the same time a collective being; a singular, whole mass that exists and behaves like an individual entity. This text explores this unique experience, which is far from rare or special. Indeed, it is pervasive, ubiquitous and has, since the dawn of performance, been with us. Surveying installation art from Vanessa Beecroft & Kanye West, Greek tragedy, back-up dancing groups and even the mass dance of clubbing crowds, this text examines and names this phenomenon: Aesthetic Collectives. Drawing on a range of methods of investigation spanning performance studies, acting theory, studies of atmosphere and affect and sociology it presents an intervention in the literature for something that has long deserved its own attention. This book will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners in performance studies, theatre, live art, sociology (particularly of groups and subcultures), cultural studies and cultural geography"--
Note:
AcknowledgementsIntroduction -- The Aesthetic CollectivePART ONEPrecisChapter One: Proximity and Pragnanz -- Space, Order, TouchInsides/Outsides, Proxemics & ContainmentAesthetic Fields, Collective DomainsProximity & PrägnanzThe DischargeTouch -- Known, Unknown; Security, ThreatCommunitas and Affect TransmissionChapter Two: Similarity -- Authority and AgencyVB16, VB35, VB45, VB46, VB48Manipulating Agency and AuthorityDirections/Instructions -- Explicit and ImpliedChapter Three: Common Fate -- Objective, Agency & EssenceChoreography and RhythmDialogueRôle/CharacterAgentic StatesPART TWOPrecisChapter Four: Character and ContagionCharacter as Roles and Dramatis PersonaeEssence and EssentialisationCharacterisation, Characterising, MoodContagionChapter Five: Mood, Affect, Feeling, EmotionMood-MakingAffective DimensionsMood Setting/ContagionChapter six -- Encountering AtmospheresThe EncounterImmersionFoam Structures -- AtmospheresConditioningClimate and Human WeatherConclusionAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CBibliographyIndex
Additional Edition:
Print version: Wiskowski, Andrew Aesthetic collectives Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032071350
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003205661
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003205661
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