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Absolute Wilson : the biography / Katharina Otto-Bernstein.

Title
Absolute Wilson : the biography / Katharina Otto-Bernstein.
Author
Otto-Bernstein, Katharina.
Publication
Munich ; London : Prestel, c2006.

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Description
270 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.); 32 cm.
Summary
The author was granted unprecedented access to the influential artist and stage designer Robert Wilson. She traces his career from his Texas childhood to his present-day studio at the Watermill Center on Long Island.
Subject
  • Choreografie
  • Experimental films > United States
  • Experimental theater > United States
  • Installations (Art) > United States
  • Otto-Bernstein, Katharina
  • Performances
  • Uitvoerende kunsten
  • Wilson, Robert, 1941- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Wilson, Robert, 1941- > Interviews
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 258).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Chapter 1 God's Country-Texas 16 -- Chapter 2 New York 37 -- Chapter 3 The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds 50 -- Chapter 4 The Birth of the Silent Opera 64 -- Chapter 5 Deafman Glance 79 -- Chapter 6 Ka Mountain and Guardenia Terrace 94 -- Chapter 7 The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin 110 -- Chapter 8 A Letter for Queen Victoria 126 -- Chapter 9 Einstein on the Beach 144 -- Chapter 10 Chamber Pieces and Death, Destruction & Detroit 160 -- Chapter 11 A Tree is Best Measured When it is Down-the Civil warS 172 -- Chapter 12 A Man for All Seasons 196 -- Chapter 13 Work is Life 228 -- Chapter 14 A Mecca for the Arts-the Watermill Center 246.
ISBN
  • 9783791334509 (hbk.)
  • 3791334506 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2008271827
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library