Theatermachine : Tadeusz Kantor in context /

Theatermachine : Tadeusz Kantor in context / edited by Magda Romanska and Kathleen Cioffi. - xxii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Theater of Tadeusz Kantor / Magda Romanska -- Kantor: A Short Biography / Kathleen Cioffi -- Tadeusz Kantor and Modernism / Martin Leach -- Kantor's Objects: Materialism of the Encounter / Michal Kobialka -- Human/Object/Thing: Kantor's Puppets and Bio-Objects / Jacob Juntunen -- Crushed People: Kantor and Trauma Theory / Grzegorz Nizio?ek -- Kantor and the Theater of Postmemory / Klaudiusz ?Swi?ecicki -- Postdramatic Tragedy: Notes on the Theater of Tadeusz Kantor / Hans-Thies Lehmann -- Kantor and the Posthuman Stage / Magda Romanska -- Transgression and Eschatology in the Work of Tadeusz Kantor / Tamara Trojanowska -- Possessed by the Traumatic Past: Postmemory and S. An-sky's Dybbuk in Kantor's Dead Class / Agnieszka Legutko -- Kantor and Bruno Schulz / Nina Kir?aly -- Childish Games with Death: Witkacy in Kantor's Theater / ?ucja Iwanczewska -- Witkacy's and Gombrowicz's Influence on the Theater of Tadeusz Kantor / Mateusz Borowski -- Kantor's and Grotowski's Poor Theater / Kris Salata -- Imagining a Future That Never Was: Kantor's Symbiotic Jewish-Polish Stage / Debra Caplan -- Kantor and S?obodzianek: The Dead Class and Our Class / Kathleen Cioffi -- From Kantor's Anatomy Lesson to the Autopsy in Polish Contemporary Art / -- Katarzyna Fazan -- Kantor and the Early Directorial Avant-Garde: Craig, Schlemmer, Meyerhold / Lawrence Switzky -- Tadeusz Kantor and the German Bauhaus: From Technological to Metaphysical Utopia / Herta Schmid -- Kantor and Japan / Izumi Ashizawa -- On the Reception of Kantor's Work in Germany / Karolina Prykowska-Michalak -- Kantor and the Contemporary European Avant-Garde: Marthaler, Hermanis, and Perceval / Anna R. Burzy?nska -- Tadeusz Kantor and the Contemporary French Avant-Garde / Agnieszka Tworek -- Kantor, Pina Bausch, and Dance Theater / Anna Kr?olica -- Kantor's Journey in the American Avant-Garde / Lauren Dubowski.

"Theatermachine is a collection of multidisciplinary essays about Tadeusz Kantor, one of the most influential theater artists of the twentieth century"--

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Kantor, Tadeusz, 1915-1990 --Criticism and interpretation.


Experimental theater--History--Poland--20th century
Polish drama--History and criticism--20th century

PN2859.P66 / K3684 2020

792.02/33092 B