{"product_id":"reality-principles-herbert-blau-9780472051519","title":"Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Herbert Blau's long sustained inquiry into theater's most provocative questions--presence, liveness, and finitude--are, at their deepest level, queries into life. \u003ci\u003eReality Principles\u003c\/i\u003e returns us to Blau's inspiring provocations and extends them to new subjects--9\/11 and Ground Zero, the nature of charisma, Pirandello and Strindberg.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Peggy Phelan, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReality Principles\u003c\/i\u003e gathers recent essays by esteemed scholar and theater practitioner Herbert Blau covering a range of topics. The book's provocative essays--including \"The Emotional Memory of Directing,\" \"The Faith-Based Initiative of the Theater of the Absurd,\" \"Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness,\" \"The Human Nature of the Bot\"--were given as keynotes and\/or memorial lectures and are collected here for the first time. The essays take up a remarkable array of topics--from body art and the self-inflicted punishments of Stelarc, Orlan, and the Viennese Actionists, to Ground Zero and 9\/11--and allow Blau to address critical questions of theater and theory, performance and relevance, the absurd and the virtual, history and illusion, community and memory. \u003ci\u003eReality Principles\u003c\/i\u003e offers a panoramic view of Herbert Blau's perspectives on life and the imitation of life on stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herbert Blau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472051512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472051519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Herbert Blau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096682373375,"sku":"9780472051519","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reality-principles-herbert-blau-9780472051519","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}