Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and
philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our
history.--PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation
During the forty-five years Richard Foreman has been staging his wildly
inventive work, he has been wrestling with the basic question of What is
art? This book collects his writings on the subject, from his early
manifestos through his recent transition to film, and provides a
fascinating window into this singular artist's mind and creative
process.
Richard Foreman has written, directed, and designed more than fifty
of his own plays, both internationally and at his Ontological-Hysteric
Theater, which he founded in 1968. He has received many OBIE awards, an
NEA Lifetime Achievement Award, and a MacArthur Genius Fellowship.