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 When Marina Abramovic Dies: A Biography
James Westcott
This biography examines the extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most pioneering artists of her generation -- and one who is still at the forefront of contemporary art today. The author draws on his unprecedented access to the artist's archive, and hundreds of hours of interviews he conducted with the artist and the people closest to her. The result is a unique and vivid portrait of the charismatic self-proclaimed "grandmother of performance art." Hardcover, 328 pp. $33.95.
 Marina Abramovic
Kristine Stiles, Klaus Biesenbach & Chrissie Iles
Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art. Including a wealth of photographs, spanning her career, this volume explores Abramovic's life and art with a detailed survey, interview, essay, as well as some of the artist's own writings. Softcover, 158 pp. $59.95.
 Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews
Penny Arcade
A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York Play-House of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol's Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art. Arcade's brand of high camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning over international audiences ever since. This autobiographical trilogy of plays represents her at her best. Hardcover, 196 pp. $23.95.
 By
Myself and Then Some
Lauren Bacall
To celebrate the silver anniversary of its original publication, Lauren Bacall
has brought her engaging memoir up to date, chronicling the events of the past
twenty-five years, including her recent films and Broadway runs, and her fond
memories of many close lifelong friendships. By Myself and Then Some reveals
the legend in her own beautiful frank words. Softcover, 506 pp. $19.99.
 The Unexpurgated Beaton
Cecil Beaton
Presented here, in their original state (which is to say, uncensored)
are the sharply witted and keenly insightful diaries of photographer,
artist, writer, and designer, Cecil Beaton. With a cast of characters
that includes: Bianca Jagger, Greta Garbo, David Hockney, Truman
Capote, Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, and countless
others, The Unexpurgated Beaton is a book that is not only
a great read and wicked fun, but a timeless chronicle of our age.
Hardcover, 508 pp. $49.00. Special, now $25.00.
 The Unexpurgated Beaton Diaries
Cecil Beaton
In his lifetime Cecil Beaton published six slim volumes culled
from his personal diaries, but rather than hurt anyone's feelings
he decided to censor his own brutally frank entries. Now here,
for the first time, are Cecil Beaton's unexpurgated diaries. Introduced
by his biographer Hugo Vickers, who has made the selection and
annotated the entries, The Unexpurgated Beaton draws on
previously unpublished diaries from the years 1970 to 1980. Softcover,
482 pp. $18.95.
 Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries
Cecil Beaton
Following the success of the first book of uncensored Beaton
diaries, comes this new collection. Here is Cecil in the second
half of the 1960s, at the peak of his career as a photographer
and designer. The cast of players in this volume include: Katherine
Hepburn, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Greta Garbo, Mick Jagger,
and Diana Vreeland, to name but a few. Hardcover, 434 pp. $50.00.
 Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett
James Knowlson & Elizabeth Knowlson
In the first part of this book, Beckett, a notably reclusive man, talks candidly with his official biographer, James Knowlson, about his family, his youth, his school years in Dublin, his early life in Paris as lecteur at the famed Ecole Normale Superieure, his friendship with James Joyce, his work in the French resistance movement during the Nazi occupation, his precipitous flight from Paris when his involvement was discovered by the Gestapo, his clandestine years in the Vaucluse region of southern France, his postwar volunteer work with the Irish Red Cross Hospital in Saint-Lo, and his return to Paris in the late 1940s to resume his literary life. The second part of this book offer the other side of the coin, as friends and colleagues share their memories of Beckett. Softcover, 313 pp. $19.95.
 Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
Robert Gottlieb
Gottlieb's Sarah is the first English-language biography to appear in decades. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate -- and scandalous -- daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France. Gottlieb once again shows his mastery of biographical research to reveal fresh ideas about our cultural ancestry. Cloth, $29.95. September.
 Arguments With England: A Memoir
Michael Blakemore
In this vivid autobiography by actor/writer/director Michael
Blakemore, candid observations about life and art are recounted
alongside colourful anecdotes from drama school and working with
characters such as John Osborne and Tyrone Guthrie. Tragic and
comic in equal measures, Arguments With England is an altogether
honest memoir that theatre fans will find hugely compelling. Hardcover,
404 pp. $46.00.
 Hamlet and
the Baker's Son:
My Life in Theatre and Politics
August Boal
From his childhood and early day's in Brazil's political theatre movement to
his more recent experiments with Forum Theatre as a democratic political process,
Boal's story is a moving and extraordinary one. He has devised a unique way of
using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods from the favelas
of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A distinctive
warmth and humour fill these pages, demonstrating Boal's commitment to his personal/political
slogan, "Have the courage to be happy." $34.95.
 Kenneth
Branagh
Mark White
From humble beginnings, Kenneth Branagh drove himself to dizzy heights
of accomplishment. By twenty-one he had starred in a West End hit.
At twenty-three he was playing Henry V for the Royal
Shakespeare Company. By twenty-six he had established his own theatre
company. Shortly after that he directed and starred in a movie version
of Henry V, the start of a series of Shakespeare films that resulted
in him being viewed by many as the leading interpreter of Shakespeare
in the world. No actor of his generation achieved so much so rapidly.
And yet no actor of his generation received such relentless criticism.
Based on extensive research in previously untapped archival materials
and on numerous interviews, Mark White's new biography traces the vicissitudes
of Branagh's career, examining his meteoric rise and the backlash that
accompanied it. Softcover, 323 pp. $19.00.
 Peter
Brook: A Biography
Michael Kustow
Peter Brook is the most influencial director of the second half of the twentieth
century, whose productions are a byword for imagination, energy and innovation.
In this first authoritative biography, arising out of an an association and
friendship with Brook of more than forty years, Michael Kustow tells the fascinating
and revealing story of a man whose life has been a never-ending quest for meaning.
Softcover, 334 pp. $60.00.
 Threads of Time
Peter Brook
Peter Brook's memoir in which
he reflects upon his artistic fortunes, his idols and teachers, his
philosophical path and personal journey. $24.95.
Between Two Silences:
Talking With Peter Brook
"This book of Brook in dialogue is an opening to amazement for all
of us who work in the theatre, or teach it or think about it." Ranging
widely over many topics, this book is the result of twelve hours of spontaneous
answers and questions with theatre students in a university setting. $25.95.
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