- Publisher: Profile
- Year: 2022
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 376pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 238x160mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781788166805
- Product code: 530042
Astonish Me!
First Nights That Changed the World
Dominic Dromgoole New Hardback Illustrated
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Taking in a variety of artforms, with examples including Michaelangelo’s creation of David, the performance of kabuki in Japan in the early 1600s, and Ravi Shankar’s appearance at Woodstock, Dominic Dromgoole pays tribute to the artistic achievements that have shaped our culture and perception of the world – those instances when ‘both the artists involved and those who give witness feel the air shift’.
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A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022
'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' Kathy Burke
Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow us to see ourselves in new ways.
It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history.
Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and fresh canon. He begins in New York in 1963, as Lorraine Hansberry remakes American theatre and a nation's perception of race. And then, as the lights go up, we find ourselves in Renaissance Florence, watching Michelangelo's David being hauled into the Piazza della Signoria. The dust settles and we are transported to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens - and then to Paris to meet with Diaghilev and Stravinsky for the Rite of Spring. We witness kabuki's creation, as a radical women's performance, in Kyoto; the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain at Manchester's Free Trade Hall; and watch as Hitchcock directs Psycho.
'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' Kathy Burke
Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow us to see ourselves in new ways.
It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history.
Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and fresh canon. He begins in New York in 1963, as Lorraine Hansberry remakes American theatre and a nation's perception of race. And then, as the lights go up, we find ourselves in Renaissance Florence, watching Michelangelo's David being hauled into the Piazza della Signoria. The dust settles and we are transported to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens - and then to Paris to meet with Diaghilev and Stravinsky for the Rite of Spring. We witness kabuki's creation, as a radical women's performance, in Kyoto; the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain at Manchester's Free Trade Hall; and watch as Hitchcock directs Psycho.
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