Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

by Ivan Gaskell

Book Overview

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. The volume begins with a perspective on traditional understandings of that relation, examining the crucial role of performance in the Poetics, the marriage of art with religion, the experiences of religious and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521147433
• ISBN13: 9780521147439
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"