The Magic Nut: A Prologue to The Nutcracker
By: Mihail Chemiakin
Beautiful renderings of Chemiakin’s costumes and scenery for the ballet
which premiered at Mariinsky Ballet in 2005.
Reviewer: Beth
Yvonne Ranier: radical juxtapositions 1961-2002
By: Sachs, Sid
About the dancer and the filmmaker. A nice accompaniment to the
Yvonne Rainer Collection series (DVD 4691- DVD 4697 Fine Arts Library)
Reviewer: Beth
Sondheim
By: Martin Gottfried
Sondheim biography and the stories of eighteen Sondheim hit productions. Includes lots of color photos,
snippets of the librettos, and production history.
Reviewer: Beth
John Currin
By: Kara Vander Weg
John Currin is one of the most skilled — and witty — painters working today. He uses paint like an old master, yet always keeps the current context evident. He is straightforward without being too academic, and never loses his sense of humor.
This monograph is substantial (382 pages), retrospective, and recent – exactly the kind of book we wish to have in our library about every contemporary artist.
Reviewer: Holly
Restaging the Sixties: Radical theaters and their legacies
By: James M. Harding & Cindy Rosenthal
This book explores eight theaters (The Living Theatre, The Open Theatre, At the Foot of the Mountain, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, The Free Southern Theater, The Performance Group, and Bread and Puppet Theater) that were significant in that period. The first section on each theater is a historical overview talking about the people who started the theater, what they were trying to do, and a description of how it evolved over time, and in most cases how the theater eventually went away. The second section discusses the contributions made by that theater to the overall subject of political theater. Finally an essay goes over the legacy of those contributions over the time since the sixties (and seventies). UT’s own Dr. Charlotte Canning writes this essay about At the Foot of the Mountain.
Reviewer: Beth
Beyond exoticism : western music and the world.
By: Taylor, Timothy Dean
This book considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences in many studies of western music.
Reviewer: David
Bulletin of the International String Figure Association
By:
FAL has several issues. There’s also this website with links to other publications on the subject of world string art.
Reviewer: Ellen
