"The Artist is Present": Artistic re-enactments and the impossibility of presence

TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-45

  Jones, Amelia ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 79951629492     PISSN: 10542043     EISSN: 15314715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DRAM_a_00046     Document Type: Review

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