Item #40617 The Theatre of Mixed Means: an Introduction to Happenings, Kinetic Environments, and other Mixed-Means Performances. Richard KOSTELANETZ.
The Theatre of Mixed Means: an Introduction to Happenings, Kinetic Environments, and other Mixed-Means Performances.

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The Theatre of Mixed Means: an Introduction to Happenings, Kinetic Environments, and other Mixed-Means Performances.

NY: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968. First edition. 8vo. Red paper-covered boards. 311pp. + 8pp. photo-insert.

Consists of two essays by the author and a series of extended conversations with John Cage, Ann Halprin, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Ken Dewey, La Monte Young, Robert Whitman, and members of USCO (each interviewee is illustrated in the photo-insert).

Kostelanetz later defined ‘mixed-means theatre’ as a term for describing “performances that de-emphasize speech in the course of using a variety of means, including human bodies, lights, film, objects, and stagecraft”, arguing that it was “superior to that performer-centered Performance Art that became more prominent in the 1980s”.

Very Good plus in lightly spine-faded and slightly edge-worn dw.

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