Arnold Aronson quotes
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“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.”
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“If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.”
-- Arnold AronsonSource : Arnold Aronson (2005). “Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography”, p.14, University of Michigan Press
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“Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.”
-- Arnold Aronson
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Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.
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“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”
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“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
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“I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.”
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“I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.”
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