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Trisha Brown : choreography as visual art / Susan Rosenberg.

Author/creator Rosenberg, Susan, 1963- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionxii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction : Trisha Brown, back to the future -- Seeing the score : Trillum (1962) -- Memory and archive : A string: homemade, motor, outside (1966) -- In a crack between dance and art : "equipment dances" (1968-1971) -- The economy of gesture : the "accumulations" (1971-1973) -- To diagram, to dance : Locus (1975) -- Anthologizing process : Line up (1977) -- Subjectivity, desire, and the thinking body : Water motor (1978) -- From the white cube to the black box (1979-1981) -- The name of the game : Set and reset (1983) and Lateral pass (1985) -- Abstraction and theatricality : Newark (Niweweorce) (1987) -- Epilogue : Trisha Brown's archival imagination.
Abstract "Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown’s archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Brown’s deliberate evolutionary trajectory through the first half of her decades-long career. Brown has created over 100 dances, six operas, one ballet, and a significant body of graphic works. This book discusses the formation of Brown’s systemic artistic principles, and provides close readings of the works that Brown created for non-traditional and art world settings in relation to the first body of works she created for the proscenium stage. Highlighting the cognitive-kinesthetic complexity that defines the making, performing and watching of these dances, Rosenberg uncovers the importance of composer John Cage’s ideas and methods to understand Brown’s contributions. One of the most important and influential artists of our time, Brown was the first woman choreographer to receive the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship “Genius Award.”"--Amazon.com.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-384) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Rosenberg, Susan, 1963- Trisha Brown. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016] 9780819576637
Genre/formBiography.
LCCN 2016002802
ISBN9780819576613 (cloth alk. paper)
ISBN0819576611 (cloth alk. paper)
ISBN9780819576620 (pbk. alk. paper)
ISBN081957662X (pbk. alk. paper)
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