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Availability:In StockContributor:Bonnie Marranca, Daniel SackSeries:Performance IdeasPublish date:9/15/2026Pages:214
Languages:EnglishPublisher:PAJ PublicationsISBN-13:9781555541699ISBN-10:1555541690UPC:9781555541699Book Category:Performing Arts, Drama, ArtBook Subcategory:Theater, Avant Garde & Experimental, Individual ArtistsBook Topic:Reference, EssaysSize:9.90 x 7.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.522Product ID:SC3FZAQSG1

An in-depth look at the creative processes of the 20th century's most groundbreaking multidisciplinary artists

The Theatre of Drawing highlights 42 American artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring individual portfolios for such prolific theatre figures as Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Ann Hamilton, Julie Mehretu, Trisha Brown, Gyun Hur, Annie-B Parson, Raven Chacon, Ralph Lemon, Jibz Cameron, Laurie Anderson, and Joan Jonas. The first book to present such an expansive theatrical perspective, the portfolios cover a wide range of genres--theatre, dance, music, installation, performance art--with each offering three to six pages of full color drawings.

The artists in this volume make use of multiple materials to create pieces that take on the forms of map, chart, storyboard, notation, score, notebook entry, character study, and works for exhibition. The portfolios offer a remarkably intimate look into the creative process that transforms drawing into the art of performance.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:PAJ PublicationsISBN-13:9781555541699ISBN-10:1555541690UPC:9781555541699Book Category:Performing Arts, Drama, ArtBook Subcategory:Theater, Avant Garde & Experimental, Individual ArtistsBook Topic:Reference, EssaysSize:9.90 x 7.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.522Product ID:SC3FZAQSG1

Bonnie Marranca is cofounder and editor/publisher of the Obie Award-winning PAJ Publications and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. She has published four volumes of essays: Timelines: Writings and Conversations; Performance Histories; Ecologies of Theatre; and Theatrewritings. She has also edited several collections of plays, essays, and interviews, including Conversations with Meredith Monk; Alchemies of Theater: The Plays, Performance Scores, and Writings of Dick Higgins; The Sun on the Tongue: Etel Adnan; and Plays for the End of the Century.

Daniel Sack is the author of three books: Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying; After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance; and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. He is the editor of the award-winning collection Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage and the founding editor of the online journal Imagined Theatres. His essays on contemporary international performance have been published in books and journals, including Theatre Journal, Theater magazine, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.


Publisher: PAJ Publications

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