Studies in Motion - Brossura

Kerr, Kevin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0889225923 ISBN 13: 9780889225923

Casa editrice: Talonbooks Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge's early life was filled with the events of Victorian melodrama: adultery, jealousy, betrayal, murder, and an abandoned child. Tried for the murder of his wife's lover, he was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide.

Later in his life, Muybridge's sequences of still photos signify a person committed to the emerging culture of modern science. But taken together, they seem to say something else--to construct a narrative that has shaped our culture into one where observations through the filter of technology are trusted more than those coming directly through our physical senses, and set images into motion in the service of a public manipulation of perception as effectively as Muybridge himself used them in the revision of his own private mythology.

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Recensione:

A piece of theatre polished to brilliance, so complete and so completely satisfying that this awe-inspiring oddity should be seen on major stages around the world.”
Vancouver Sun

a lucid, visually compelling and forceful piece of theatre.”
Calgary Herald

Studies in Motion is always seductive to look at the resulting complexity is sublime.”
Georgia Straight

For Studies in Motion, Kerr has written a complex, thoughfully layered script that makes us laugh and care about this deeply troubled man.”
Globe & Mail

Studies in Motion takes a subject from the world of science and breathes theatrical life into it with music, movement, imagery and text production values don’t get higher than this. Feast your eyes.”
Vancouver Courier

L'autore:

Originally from the Thompson Valley of British Columbia, Kevin Kerr is a founding member and co-Artistic Director of the Electric Company Theater in Vancouver, and emdash, a creation-based collective with whom he's co-written numerous plays. He has received four Jessie Richardson Awards for his writing.

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• Editore: Talonbooks Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0889225923
• ISBN 13: 9780889225923
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144