Perhaps the world's foremost avant-garde theater artist, Robert Wilson (born 1941) ranges across opera, theater, visual arts, video, furniture and set design in his pursuit of astounding multimedia spectacles. Susan Sontag wrote of his career, "It has the signature of a major artistic creation. I can't think of any body of work as large or as influential." Wilson's legendary operatic work with Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach , upended operatic conventions, and Wilson has also left his mark on masterworks of the ...
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Perhaps the world's foremost avant-garde theater artist, Robert Wilson (born 1941) ranges across opera, theater, visual arts, video, furniture and set design in his pursuit of astounding multimedia spectacles. Susan Sontag wrote of his career, "It has the signature of a major artistic creation. I can't think of any body of work as large or as influential." Wilson's legendary operatic work with Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach , upended operatic conventions, and Wilson has also left his mark on masterworks of the classical and modern repertoires, from The Magic Flute to Madame Butterfly , Lulu to The Threepenny Opera , and in theater from Hamlet to Orlando and Happy Days . Robert Wilson from Within celebrates the achievements of this "total artist," from his earliest works to his latest, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic . World renowned artists, composers, actors, theater directors, costume designers, scenographers and musicians give their perspectives on Wilson's work, accompanied by lavish images including a personal series selected and annotated by Wilson and a catalogue raisonn??? of his complete works, with full production information.
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Add this copy of Robert Wilson From Within: Catalogue Raisonné to cart. $179.29, fair condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by The Arts Arena.
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Add this copy of Robert Wilson From Within: Catalogue Raisonne to cart. $197.50, good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by The Arts Arena Publishing.
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Fair-to-Good; Hardcover; Light wear to the front cover with moderate shelfwear and a heavy horizontal pressure crease to the back cover; The four edge-corners of the covers are heavily "bumped" and have been fitted with clear plastic corner-protectors; Tiny crease to the top right edge-corner of the first 30 pages, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are all bright and unmarked; Good binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); Red covers with title in black lettering; 2011, The Arts Arena Publishing; 336 pages; "Robert Wilson from Within: Catalogue Raisonne, " by Marina Abramovic, et al.
