{"product_id":"copeaudecroux-irvingcraig-thomas-leabhart-9781032071817","title":"Copeau\/Decroux, Irving\/Craig: A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask \u0026 Marionette","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this series of essays, Thomas Leabhart presents a thorough overview and analysis of Etienne Decroux's artistic genealogy. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter four years' apprenticeship with Decroux, Thomas Leabhart began to research and discover how forebears and contemporaries might have influenced Decroux's project. Decades of digging revealed striking correspondences that often led to adjacent fields-art history, philosophy, and anthropology-forays wherein Leabhart's appreciation of Decroux and his \"kinsfolk,\" who themselves transgressed traditional frontiers, increased. The following essays, composed over a 30-year period, find a common source in a darkened Prague cinema where people gasped at a wooden doll's sudden reversal of fortune. These essays: investigate the source of that astonishment; continue Leabhart's examination of Decroux's \"family tree\"; consider how Copeau's and Decroux's keen observation of animal movement influenced their actor training; record the challenging and paradoxical improvisations \u003cem\u003echez\u003c\/em\u003e Decroux; and recall Decroux's debt to sculpture, poster art, sport and masks. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese essays will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre and performance studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas G. Leabhart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032071818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032071817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Thomas G. Leabhart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075481170175,"sku":"9781032071817","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1f0fbfd-04f3-41d8-9aad-07dae704a327.jpg?v=1685459676","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/copeaudecroux-irvingcraig-thomas-leabhart-9781032071817","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}