First published in 1992, To All Appearances is a book in which ideology and performance shadow each other, in a theoretical inquiry which ranges widely across historical periods and cultures. The author's concerns-which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power-take the reader from Jacobean drama to the pageantry of Robert Wilson; from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theater of Kleist to Kantor's theater of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles.
A brilliant, uncontainable, and chastening look at the rhetoric of critical theory in relation to performance and ideological practice, this is undoubtedly a book for the twenty-first century. It returns us, through all appearances, to the unavoidable question in art, in politics, in the society of the spectacle: what, after all, is the future of illusion?
| ISBN: | 9781032978741 |
| Publication date: | 13th May 2026 |
| Author: | Herbert Blau |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Revivals |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Cultural studies Biography, Literature and Literary studies |
First published in 1992, To All Appearances is a book in which ideology and performance shadow each other, in a theoretical inquiry which ranges widely across historical periods and cultures. The author's concerns-which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power-take the reader from Jacobean drama to the pageantry of Robert Wilson; from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theater of Kleist to Kantor's theater of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles.A brilliant, uncontainable, and chastening look at the rhetoric of critical theory in relation to performance and ideological practice, this is undoubtedly a book for the twenty-first century.
To All Appearances features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Cultural studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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To All Appearances was written by Herbert Blau and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
To All Appearances has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Revivals series
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