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Petra Kuppers - Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape - 9780230298279 - V9780230298279
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Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape

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Description for Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape Hardcover. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. 296 pages, 25 black & white halftones. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight: 468.
Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230298279
SKU
V9780230298279
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Petra Kuppers
Petra Kuppers is Artistic Director of The Olimpias, and she teaches in Performance Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. Her previous books include Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (2007), Community Performance: An Introduction (2007).

Reviews for Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
'In this book, Petra Kuppers one of the most dynamic thinkers in the field of disability culture, disability arts and community arts today provides a rigourous, sophisticated and strikingly poetic series of mediations on the processes, pleasures and challenges of working in this field. Drawing on examples of the way her own arts based investigations have evolved across a variety ... Read more

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