Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 363.258
RRP: £16.33
Price: £14.69
Review Portraits of Guilt: The Woman Who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals / Pocket Books:
Publication date: 2000-10-30
Dewey code: 707.1174811
RRP: £70.00
Price: £71.99
Review Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia / Greenwood Press:
Creator: Vivian Vale
Publication date: 1991-09
Dewey code: 700.103
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.76
Review Angry Women (Re/Search ; 13) / Juno Publishing:
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 791.456520431
RRP: £9.78
Price: £16.95
Review TV Moms / TV Books:
Publication date: 1999-05-13
Dewey code: 792.0820973
Price: £13.99
Review Staging Femininities: Performance and Performativity / Manchester University Press:
Publication date: 2000-02-28
Dewey code: 302.224408996073
RRP: £19.95
Price: £18.92
Review Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy & Culture): Literacy and Social ... Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture) / University of Pittsburgh Press:
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 700.922
Price: £4.50
Review Visual and Performing Arts (Women in Profile) / Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada:
Publication date: 1999-01-01
Dewey code: 822.914099287
RRP: £45.00
Price: £29.69
Review Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre: The Construction of Woman / Sussex Academic Press:
Publication date: 2000-02-28
Dewey code: 759.13
RRP: £32.50
Price: £28.86
Review Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal / Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S.:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1989-08-10
Price: £15.00
Review The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-14 / Chatto and Windus:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 629.4500820973
Price: £20.25
Review The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Thorndike Nonfiction) / Thorndike Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-10-07
Dewey code: 410.82092273
RRP: £90.00
Price: £89.99
Review Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Routledge studies in the history of linguistics) / Routledge:
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 704.9424
Price: £30.00
Review Women and Art / Watson-Guptill Publications:
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 363.258
RRP: £5.23
Price: £17.98
Review Portraits of Guilt / Pocket Star Books:
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 700.92
Price: £29.95
Review Laurie Anderson / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.:As a major figure rising out of the downtown New art scene of the 1970s, Laurie Anderson has straddled aural and visual art with equal genius to unfold the stories embedded in the effects of media on American cultural and political life as well as on the everyday. Now in her fourth decade of artistic production, Anderson is at last the subject of an impressive book by Roselee Goldberg that exemplifies both the value and problems inherent in textual containment of a live form. The ephemeral and unrepeatable ontology of performance provokes vexed and hotly contested questions around its documentation. Roselee Goldberg's superbly produced eponymous book should be exhibit A in the case for the defence. The documentation of performance involves freezing its flow, rendering it into a series of static artifacts like costumes and photographs strangely cut off from their life. Goldberg makes a valiant and wholly commendable attempt to make the best of what can always only be the curation of the traces of art, rather than art itself in several ways. First, she organises Anderson's output historically to allow readers to understand it in the context of the development of themes, theatrical techniques, and the evolution of technology Anderson employs so idiosyncratically. Second, with remarkable access to those traces of performance, she includes textual excerpts and songs, Anderson's own designs for body instruments such as the audio glasses she used to amplify the sounds of her own body, as well as sketches for stage sets, and chunks of interviews with the artist. Goldberg also takes time to describe the performance, which-although fraught with the difficulty of translating one medium into another-is too often ignored by archivists and academics. Finally, Goldberg clearly and usefully interprets Anderson's work in the context of aesthetics, society, technology, and culture. [+]Anderson's work has always been about communication, she floats images before her audience, while streams of words anchor them to strangely traditional forms of story-telling about animals, home, dreams, families, and angels. Both traditional and high-technology becomes hand-drawn, exceeding its function and finding new ones through theatre: the Tape Bow Violin or the Violinograph, for instance. While not working with found-objects, Anderson finds the theatricality of each media, each object, and each story she uses. Ultimately, the effect is only partially successfully conveyed, even in a book as useful as Goldberg's. But as a coffee table book for the avant-garde set, Laurie Anderson sets a high standard for performance books to follow. -Fiona Buckland.
Publication date: 1999-05-15
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £21.50
Price: £21.47
Review Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections / University of Iowa Press:
Publication date: 1992-03
Dewey code: 070.4333092
RRP: £13.74
Price: £39.95
Review Fire in the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chapelle / Ballantine Books (T):
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1992-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.82
Price: £5.45
Review Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth (Grand Canyon Association) / Grand Canyon Association:
Edition: Library Binding
Publication date: 1993-12-31
Dewey code: 759.972
RRP: £16.33
Price: £2.66
Review Frida Kahlo (The Library of Famous Women) / Blackbirch Press:
Publication date: 1986-06-01
Dewey code: 401.9
RRP: £9.99
Price: £37.95
Review Mother Tongue, Father Time: A Decade of Linguistic Revolt (A Midland Book): A Decade of Linguistic Revolt (A Midland Book) / Indiana University Press:
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Portraits of Guilt: The Woman Who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals, Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia, Angry Women (Re/Search ; 13), TV Moms, Staging Femininities: Performance and Performativity, Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy & Culture): Literacy and Social ... Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture), Visual and Performing Arts (Women in Profile), Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre: The Construction of Woman, Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal, The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-14, The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Thorndike Nonfiction), Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Routledge studies in the history of linguistics), Women and Art, Portraits of Guilt, Laurie Anderson, Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections, Fire in the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chapelle, Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth (Grand Canyon Association), Frida Kahlo (The Library of Famous Women), Mother Tongue, Father Time: A Decade of Linguistic Revolt (A Midland Book): A Decade of Linguistic Revolt (A Midland Book) |
