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Kostelanetz, Richard, 1940-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1940 May 14

Nationality

American

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Scenarios: Scripts To Perform, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-37081-38923
Scope and Contents

This book is a compilation of performance scripts with heavy emphasis on Fluxus and Neo-Dada. As indicated in the book, Spaulding Gray, the now well known radio monologist, performed in a music piece written by Paul Epstein in 1971. Kostelanetz also reprints a monologue by Gray entitled "The Return from India." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Theatre of Mixed Means / Kostelanetz, Richard ; Apollinaire G ; Artaud A ; Beckett S ; Brecht G ; Breton A ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Duchamp M ; Ernst M ; Ginsberg A ; Hansen A ; Higgins D ; Joyce J ; Kaprow A ; Kepes G ; McLuhan M ; Samaras L ; Schneemann C ; Stern G ; Young L ; Zazeela M., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-32473-34047
Scope and Contents

This book is "an introduction to happenings, kinectic environments, and other mixed-media performances." Nine members of the 1960's avant garde discuss their works with Kostelanetz in the new theatre forms, including John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenberg and La Monte Young. Richard Kostelanetz contributes two essays interpreting the new theatre in terms of its historical, social and aesthetic meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968