Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge by Kuppers, Petra

Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415302388)

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Format: Hardcover
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Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge by Kuppers, Petra

Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge

$160.00
Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge by Kuppers, Petra

Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics.
This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.

Author: Petra Kuppers
ISBN-10: 0415302382
ISBN-13: 9780415302388
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2003
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 10.06h x 7.24w x 0.71d
By Petra Kuppers
By Petra Kuppers
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Petra Kuppers is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Bryant College. She is Artistic Director of the Olimpias Performance Research Project and she has written extensively in the fields of cultural, performance and disability studies.

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