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Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno; Walter Benjamin; Ernst Bloch; Bertolt Brecht; Georg Lukacs
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which ...Show more
Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht; Marc Silberman (Editor); Tom Kuhn (Editor); Steve Giles (Editor)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive editi ...Show more
HANS HAACKE by BRECHT BERTOLT BIRD JON
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Category: Display & Gift
Born in Cologne in 1936 and based in New York since 1965, Haacke's strong political, cultural and social concerns are reflected in his installations, texts and sculptures. Throughout his fifty-year career Haacke has frequently changed the presentation of his art to get his message across. Often borrowin ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Classics
Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared int ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and n ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Plays
Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who survives by ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Methuen Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: good
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words an ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The play is a parable inspired by Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle is metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected in its pr ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Reading Level: good
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azda ...Show more
The Cold Gaze: Germany in The 1920s by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen (Editor); Christopher Isherwood (Text by); Irmgard Keun (Text by); Angela Lampe (Text by); Anthony Lane (Text by); Herbert Molderings (Text by); Werner Möller (Text by); Patrick Rössler (Text by); Catherine Wermester (Text by); Kirsten Degel (Editor); Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword by); Vicki Baum (Text by); Bertolt Brecht (Text by); Alfred Döblin (Text by); Hans Fallada (Text by); Marieluise Fleisser (Text by)
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Category: Art and Design
A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists--Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch--and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of t ...Show more