Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings (Record no. 49190)
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| fixed length control field | 01644 a2200181 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250108151311.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780472056781 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 812.54 HIG |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Higgins, Dick |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | University of Michigan Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2024 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | UK |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 201 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in Japan. Yet as important as Higgins's work has been to historians of the American avant-garde, relatively little attention has been paid to his radical theatrical vision. Alchemies of Theater brings together a broad selection of Higgins's writings and theater-related work, much of it unpublished or long out of print, including plays and performance scores, drawings, and writings on theater and performance. As this book demonstrates, Higgins deconstructed the drama long before it became a project of theater; undercut the traditional roles of author and director; created what is now considered "devised" theater; pioneered the use of media in theater, writing the first electronic opera; and was a precursor in deconstruction and "postdramatic" avant-garde traditions. His Intermedia manifesto offered a sweeping view of interdisciplinarity-in effect, a new arts ecology |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Criticism and Interpretation |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | American Drama 20th Century History and Criticism |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Theater United States History 20th Century |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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