Research Catalog

Title

Theandric : Julian Beck's last notebooks / edited by Erica Bilder, with notes by Judith Malina.

Author

Beck, Julian, 1925-1985.

Publication

Chur, Switzerland ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic Publishers, c1992.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Bilder, Erica.
• Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)

Description

xii, 195 p.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary theatre studies, 1049-6513 ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Contemporary theatre studies ; v. 2.

Subject

• Beck, Julian > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Beck, Julian, 1925-1985 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Theater > Philosophy

Genre/Form

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Note

• "A volume in the Living Theatre Archive section."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Manifesto -- Love, Truth, Reality -- The Object of Theatre Is Transformation -- Anarchic Mind -- To the Poet -- The Actressor as Creator -- Paintings of Genitalia -- On Bodilessness -- American Boobism -- Theatre as Sacrificial Ritual -- Revolutionary Jews -- On the Marx-Bakunin Schism -- Too Loud -- The Problem of the Text -- Theandric -- Empyreal -- Confusion.Darkness.Ignorance -- Politics in the Closet -- The Theatre Absolute -- Prison -- The Poets Talk Together -- Leonardo -- The Culture Influences Our Instincts -- What Is It All About -- Moral Tirade -- Time -- Prometheus -- Sex in Language -- The Divine -- Changes -- Limits 1 -- The Quest -- A Vessel of Exploration -- Speed -- The Presence of the Divine -- Induced Passivity -- Changes 2 -- Effort -- Anarchist Aesthetics -- I Confess -- The Next Revolution -- Darkness -- The Face of the Theatre -- The Oath -- 1945 -- Revolts -- Aphorisms -- Demodee -- Theatre-Form -- America A B C. A -- Eccentric. B -- America. C -- Songs of the Revolution 1.
• Why Go? -- Riding Against Rome -- Pandora's Box -- Aphorisms -- Machinery: Event -- Cinema -- For an Anti-Aristotelian Theatre -- Limits 2 -- Like the Mole -- The Class Dilemma -- Beauty -- Herbert Read on Utopia -- Herbert Read on Non-Violence -- The Only Ethical Action -- Aphorisms -- Now I Want -- Art Is an Aid to Evolution -- Meditation 1979 -- A Section on Sleep. Movement. Dream 1. We Are All Sleepwalkers. Aphorism. Sleep. Sleep Questions. Sleep! -- On the Road -- An Enigma in a Labyrinth -- There Isn't Enough Time -- What Is the Question? -- The Answer -- The Oracle -- Complexity -- Life Is Imagined as a Battlefield -- Note to Myself -- About Plot -- The Ladder -- Graphology Displays Impatience -- Fervor -- Tame Theatre -- Poor Theatre -- On Artaud. The Anti-Artaud 1. The Anti-Artaud 2. Note. Artaud 1. Artaud 2. Artaud 3 -- A Public Which Prefers -- Marxism/Anarchism -- Williams, Landauer -- No Moor Poor! -- Opening -- Change the Soul -- A Small Section on Revolution. On Revolution.
• Songs of the Revolution 2 -- Thespis -- Summoning the Spirit -- Is the Right Growing? -- Epigrams -- (Autobiography). This Little Voyage. The Little Autobiography -- Words Die -- Fragment -- How Can the Theatre Teach? -- Stupidity -- The Audience -- Theatre Now -- The Plague -- Stupidity -- Mobble 1 -- Telegrams -- Stars -- Mobble 2 -- Ads -- Courage -- Stupidity -- The Announcer -- On Wagner. On Wagner. Songs of the Revolution 3 -- Indecipherable Delirium -- Buber -- The Ethical Defines of Truth -- My Lens -- Note -- Toxicomania -- PS.

ISBN

• 3718651920
• 3718651939 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91030259^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library