 | The Art of Theater The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theaterJames R. Hamilton is a member of the Philosophy Department at Kansas State University. His research is in aesthetics, focusing on theater. He has published articles in the British Journal of Aesthetics , the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism , has entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics , and has received NEH and Big XII Fellowships. |
