Bob Wilson Revisited
| Author | Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt; Stefan Zweifel eds. |
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| Publisher | Delpire&co |
| ISBN | 9791095822011 |
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| Status | not yet published |
Bob Wilson is one of the most visionary and controversial theater artists of our time, as well as one of the most famous and secretive. Through his own words and the testimonies of those who have worked with him, this book, conceived in collaboration with the American playwright, invites us to explore his immense body of work, from its earliest beginnings to his current creations. It takes as its starting point the artist's first decisive encounters, notably with Byrd Hoffman, his dance teacher in Texas, and Raymond Andrews, the deaf child he decided to adopt when he was only twenty-seven. From play to play, Wilson, whose early difficulties eventually shaped his revolutionary artistic vision, would become the inventor of sublime shows, sometimes bordering on a disembodied aestheticism, verging on the abstraction of dreams, as Isabelle Huppert recalls of her interpretation of Orlando.
| 340 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, hb, English |
