Actors and Onlookers
Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5086170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon M Wickstrom, Natalie Crohn Schmitt |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 1991-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3208237 |
| OpenAlex | W2032524884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This is the first detailed and analytic study of the revolutionary impact of contemporary scientific views of nature on contemporary postmodern theater in all its aspects -directing, scripting, producing, and acting. Natalie Schmitt centers her analysis on the opposition between the philosophical system of Aristotle, which for centuries anchored Western concepts of theater, and the non-systematic theorizing of John Cage, whose formulations most clearly reflect the aesthetic principles of avant-garde theater
Aesthetics · Art · Visual arts · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |