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Absolute Wilson : the biography / Katharina Otto-Bernstein.
LIBRA - Special NX512.W55 O87 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Otto-Bernstein, Katharina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Otto-Bernstein, Katharina. Absolute Wilson.
- Otto-Bernstein, Katharina.
- Wilson, Robert, 1941-2025--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wilson, Robert.
- Wilson, Robert, 1941-2025--Interviews.
- Wilson, Robert, 1941-.
- Installations (Art)--United States.
- Installations (Art).
- Experimental films.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Experimental theater--United States.
- Experimental theater.
- Experimental films--United States.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 270 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Munich ; London : Prestel, [2006]
- Summary:
- The author was granted unprecedented access to the influential artist and stage designer Robert Wilson. She traces his career from his Texas childhood to his present-day studio at the Watermill Center on Long Island.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 God's Country-Texas 16
- Chapter 2 New York 37
- Chapter 3 The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds 50
- Chapter 4 The Birth of the Silent Opera 64
- Chapter 5 Deafman Glance 79
- Chapter 6 Ka Mountain and Guardenia Terrace 94
- Chapter 7 The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin 110
- Chapter 8 A Letter for Queen Victoria 126
- Chapter 9 Einstein on the Beach 144
- Chapter 10 Chamber Pieces and Death, Destruction & Detroit 160
- Chapter 11 A Tree is Best Measured When it is Down-the Civil warS 172
- Chapter 12 A Man for All Seasons 196
- Chapter 13 Work is Life 228
- Chapter 14 A Mecca for the Arts-the Watermill Center 246.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 258).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Otto-Bernstein, Katharina. Absolute Wilson.
- ISBN:
- 9783791334509
- 3791334506
- OCLC:
- 65204246
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