An Empty Room

2022-05-15 Performing Arts

Author : Michael Sakamoto
Release : 2022-05-15
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 66X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Empty Room written by Michael Sakamoto. This book was released on 2022-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is now a global phenomenon. This is the first book about butoh authored by a scholar-practitioner who combines personal experience with ethnographic and historical accounts alongside over twenty photos. Author Michael Sakamoto traverses butoh dance history from its roots in post-World War II Japan to its diaspora in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. An Empty Room delves into the archive of butoh dance, gathering testimony from multiple generations of artists active in Japan, the US, and Europe. The book also creatively highlights seminal visual and written texts, especially Hosoe Eikoh's photo essay, "Kamaitachi," and Hijikata Tatsumi's early essays. Sakamoto ultimately fashions an original view of what butoh has been, is and, more importantly, can be through the lens of literary criticism, photo studies, folklore, political theory, and his experience performing, photographing, teaching, and lecturing in 15 countries worldwide.

An Empty Room: Stories

2011-05-23 Fiction

Author : Mu Xin
Release : 2011-05-23
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 666/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Empty Room: Stories written by Mu Xin. This book was released on 2011-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China’s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world’s leading artist-intellectuals. An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway’s In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata’s palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin’s wandering “I” interweaves plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribbles notes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirring page turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.

The Empty Room

2018 Fiction

Author : Sadia Abbas
Release : 2018
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Empty Room written by Sadia Abbas. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a sham, a trap from which there is no escape. In a world of stifling conformity, Tahira must fight for her very identity: as a woman, and as a painter. Tragedy strikes when her family and friends are caught up in the brutally repressive regime. Faced with horror and loss, she embarks upon a series of paintings entitled 'The Empty Room', filling the blank canvases with vivid colour and light."--Publisher's description.

An Empty Room

2005 Fiction

Author : Talitha Stevenson
Release : 2005
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 810/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Empty Room written by Talitha Stevenson. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by her own experience of growing up too fast among families affected by divorce, Stevenson's debut questions perceptions of sexual intimacy as an endlessly renewable resource and asks if it is possible to simply use it up.

The Empty Room

2021-04-15 Architecture

Author : Reza Aliabadi
Release : 2021-04-15
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 34X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Empty Room written by Reza Aliabadi. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space. He suggests ‘the empty room’ as the very essence of architecture, and ‘the spatial experience’ as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture – not as the walls that enclose the space – rather the space in-between the walls. What he calls an “anti-architecture” of invisible voids. Today architecture has fallen short as a discipline and has instead converted into an industry, part of commercial establishment. Accordingly it has given up its capacity to offer contributions and has been reduced to being a service. It has become all about a form-making exercise and dressing it up with a fashionable skin. Now, it is necessary or rather urgent to pause, take a moment, go inward, search for the essentials, and hope to rediscover a principle which is at once basic and timeless.

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