Hans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatic Theatre (1999–) [PL, EN, BR-PT, SK, RO]

“This is a study of the new theatre forms, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.

In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as a response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and sound.

Engaging with theoreticians of ‘drama’ from Aristotle and Brecht, to Barthes and Schechner, the book analyzes the work of recent experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Müller, the Wooster Group, Needcompany and Societas Raffaello Sanzio.”

First published as Postdramatisches Theater, Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt am Main, 1999.

English edition
Translated and with an Introduction by Karen Jürs-Munby
Publisher Routledge, London, 2006
x+214 pages

Reviews: Marvin Carlson (Theatre Research International, 2006), Iva Rosanda-Žigo (Fluminensia, 2006, CR), Denise Varney (Performance Paradigm, 2007), Elinor Fuchs (TDR, 2008), Jeanne Wilcoxon (Theatre Topics, 2008).

Wikipedia
WorldCat

Teatr postdramatyczny (Polish, trans. Dorota Sajewska & Małgorzata Sugiera, 2004, pp 1-99, 41 MB)
Postdramatic Theatre (English, trans. Karen Jürs-Munby, 2006)
Teatro pós-dramático (BR-Portuguese, trans. Pedro Süssekind, 2007, 38 MB, via)
Postdramatické divadlo (Slovak, trans. Anna Grusková & Elena Diamantová, 2007, 16 MB, via)
Teatrul postdramatic (Romanian, trans. Victor Scoradeţ, 2009)

Jerzy Grotowski: Towards a Poor Theatre (1968–) [EN, ES, BR-PT, RO]

A classic work on theatre. Text by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training.

Preface by Peter Brook
Publisher Simon and Schuster, 1968
Expanded edition, edited by Eugenio Barba, Routledge, 2002
ISBN 0878301550, 9780878301553
262 pages

Towards a Poor Theatre (English, 1968/2002, 6 MB)
Hacia un teatro pobre (Spanish, trans. Margo Glantz, 1970/1992, via)
Em busca de um teatro pobre (Brazilian Portuguese, trans. Aldomar Conrado, 1976, 63 MB, via)
Spre un teatru sărac (Romanian, trans. George Banu and Mirella Nedelcu-Patureau, 1998, 90 MB, via)

Hubert Damisch: The Origin of Perspective (1987–) [EN, CR]

“In part a response to Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form, The Origin of Perspective is much more. In France it is considered one of the most important works of art history to have appeared in the last twenty years. With the exception of Michel Foucault’s analysis of Las Meninas, it is perhaps the first time a structuralist method such as the one developed by Claude Lévi-Strauss in The Way of the Masks has been thoroughly and convincingly applied to Western art.

The task Damisch has set for himself is to refute both the positivist critics, whose approach makes up the bulk of perspective studies and is based on a complete repression of Panofsky’s early work, and the current pseudo-avant-gardist position (whether in the field of cinema studies or in literary criticism), which tends to disregard facts and theoretical analysis. Damisch argues that if a theoretical analysis of perspective is possible, using all the tools of structuralist semiotics, it is only possible in the context of a close look at its appearance in history, beginning with the details of the ‘invention’ of perspective.”

Originally published in French as L’Origine de la perspective, Flammarion, Paris, 1987.

Translated by John Goodman
Publisher MIT Press, 1994
ISBN 0262041391, 9780262041393
477 pages

Review: Wood (The Art Bulletin, 1995).
Commentary: Iversen (Oxford Art Journal, 2005).

WorldCat (EN)

The Origin of Perspective (English, 1994, chapter 14 missing, 24 MB, no OCR)
Porijeklo perspektive (Croatian, trans. Zlatko Wurzberg, 2006, added on 2018-7-8)