San Antonio College Library

"The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing developments to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has also left an indelible mark on art education throughout the world. Setting everything firmly against a backdrop of the times, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind its conception and describes its teaching...

"Integrative Performance serves a crucial need of 21st-century performers by providing a transdisciplinary approach to training. Its radical new take on performance practice is designed for a climate that increasingly requires fully rounded artists. The book critiques and interrogates key current practices and offers a proven alternative to the idea that rigorous and effective training must separate the disciplines into discrete categories of acting,...

Focus is on pedagogical approaches used by masters who were trained by Kano or Kano lineage painters during the 17th through 19th centuries. This volume is illustrated with reproductions of Japanese artwork in b & w and color.