The aesthetics of the oppressed [electronic resource] / Augusto Boal ; translated by Adrian Jackson.

Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. This book speaks about the subjects important to him - the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative possibilities for all of u...

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Main Author: Boal, Augusto
Other Authors: Jackson, Adrian
Other title:Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas. English
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: dance teacher
  • tree of the theatre of the oppressed
  • aesthetics of the oppressed
  • theoretical foundation
  • 1. Analogical and complementary sets
  • 2. Words as means of transport
  • 3. evil that words do
  • 4. From aesthetic process to artistic product
  • 5. Love and art
  • 6. Art and knowledge
  • 7. Aesthetics and neurons
  • 8. invasion of our brains
  • 9. Metaphor as translation or trans-substantiation
  • 10. Crowns of neuron circuits
  • 11. Aesthetic neurons
  • 12. Volume, territory and the insignia of power
  • 13. three levels of perception
  • 14. necessity for the aesthetics of the oppressed
  • 15. subjunctive method
  • 16. metaphor : humans and hominids
  • practical realisation : the Prometheus project
  • 1. word
  • 2. image
  • 3. sound
  • 4. ethics
  • Theatre as a martial art
  • insubmissive protagonist
  • skinny apes and primitive democracy
  • Art in politics and the politics of art
  • lady in New York
  • Globalisation, culture and art
  • suicide of the artist
  • globalisation of the mummies
  • three paths of culture
  • Theatre in prisons
  • King Claudiu's crown : oppressed and oppressors
  • freedom of Prometheus and the sound of silence
  • Ethics and morality
  • primer, not a catechism
  • Seventieth birthday
  • 2001.