Michal Kobialka

Intimate Commentaries on Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032946313
• ISBN-10: 1032946318
• Artikelnr.: 76161837

Autorenporträt

Michal Kobialka is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota, USA. He has published widely on theatre and performance historiography as well as on Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre. His most recent book publication is Staging Difficult Pasts: Transnational Memory, Theatre, and Museums (Routledge 2024), which he co-edited with Maria M. Delgado and Bryce Lease.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Topography of Representation 1. From the Beginning in his Credo Was
. . . 2. Tadeusz Kantor's Objects and Machines: Materialism of the
Encounter 3. Tadeusz Kantor's Happenings: Reality, Mediality, and History
4. Of Memory and History: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre of Minima Moralia Part
2: Cairological Time 5. Of the Memory of a Human Unhoused in Being 6.
Delirium of the Flesh: "All the Dead Voices" in the Space of the Now 7. Of
Last Things in Memento Mori: Silence, Eternity, and Death 8. Valences of
the Avant-Garde: Of Tadeusz Kantor's Machine of Love and Death and Spatial
Dialectics Part 3: Refractory Art 9. A Note on Working Through Crisis:
Theorizing Polish Socialist Realism, 1945-1949 10. Historical Events and
Historiography of Tourism 11. The Meaning of Working Through the Past: Of
Awkward Objects and Collateral Memories 12. Specters of the Past: An
Installation in the Times of Disquiet Epilogue. Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre of
Personal Confessions: Notes on Late Style