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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464902803321

Titolo

Performance, embodiment and cultural memory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009

ISBN

1-282-48117-7

9786612481178

1-4438-1471-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CounsellColin <1956->

MockRoberta

Disciplina

306.4/84

Soggetti

Performing arts - Social aspects

Collective memory

Body language

Human body - Symbolic aspects

Group identity

Performing arts - Anthropological aspects

Performing arts - Semiotics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PERFORMING INTERCULTURAL MEMORY IN THE DIASPORIC PRESENT; EMBODIMENT OF MEMORY AND THE DIASPORIC AGENT IN AKRAM KHAN COMPANY'S BAHOK; TOHU-BOHU; BELATED SPACES; BARCELONA; DEAD BODIES/LIVE BODIES; CONSUMING CULTURE; NO SWEAT; PIANOLA KARAOKE AND OTHER ATTRACTIONS; NOISE, MEMORY, GESTURE; KEY TEXTS; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of cultural memory, and of the body's role in its creation and dissemination, is central to current academic debate, particularly in relation to performance. Viewed from a variety of theoretical positions, the actions of the meaning-bearing body in culture and its capacity to reproduce, challenge or modify existing formulations have been the focus of some of the most influential studies to emerge from the arts



and humanities in the last two and a half decades. The ten essays bro...

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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004090189707536

Autore

Meiss, Millard

Titolo

Pittura a Firenze e Siena dopo la morte nera : arte, religione e società alla meta del Trecento / Millard Meiss ; saggio introduttivo di Bruno Toscano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Einaudi, 1982

ISBN

8806531085

Descrizione fisica

LIX, 303 p., [48] c. di tav. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Collana

Piccola biblioteca Einaudi ; 422

Altri autori (Persone)

Toscano, Bruno

Disciplina

759.5

Soggetti

Pittura fiorentina

Pittura sacra - Toscana

Pittura senese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Tit. orig.: Painting in Florence and Siena after the black death