- Zusatztext
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.
- Kurztext
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.
- Autorenportrait
Peter Eckersall teaches Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Recent publications include Kawamura Takeshi's Nippon Wars and Other Plays and Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (with Denise Varney, Barbara Hatley and Chris Hudson). He is a specialist of contemporary performance and a dramaturgy.
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.