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fluttering visual patterns of ballet, and I think that is basically what I've done in theater: architectural landscapes that are structured.70 Similarly, critics occasionally (but rarely) point to his explicit reliance on Busby Berkeley, and the Ziegfried Follies are mentioned.71 volume documenting his Letter to Queen is typical in denying that he is writing plays: The language of Queen Victoria is 'throwaway,' devoid of content.72 Again, Wilson often calls his pieces operas even when they rely on declamation, not singing. This leads critics to refer repeatedly to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk, linking Wilson with another misunderstood genius, who created new stage form, unifying all the arts in new way. Marranca cited Wagner to emphasize that Wilson performance is a spiritualized state of clairvoyance, relying on mysticism, illusion (39), and universal archetypes (40). This is theatre as assemblage art. Words are used merely for their sound and music value; language is complete throwaway and meaningless in content. Grounded in an aesthetic of dissonance, the production begins and ends with screams (aural tableaux that complement visual tableaux);... Just as Queen Victoria is founded on movement minus time 6sSylv&re Lotringer, Bob Wilson: Es gibt eine Sprache, die universell ist, in New Yorker Gesprdche (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1983): 39-40. 'See the history of production in David Stansbury, getting to ... (is very complicated), 3rd Coast (December 1986), 84. 67Olive Graham, Robert Wilson: Avante Garde Artist (An Interview). 6Ibid. 69Sylvere Lotringer, Bob Wilson: Es gibt eine Sprache, die universell ist, 39. 70Quoted in Michael Walsh, A Tree Grows and Grows, 85. 71Franco Quadri referred to this about DD&D II in the introduction to the text of the German section of the CIVIL warS, 17. 72Bonnie Marranca, Theater of Images, xiv. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.172 on Fri, 07 Oct 2016 06:03:45 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 30 / Katherine Arens and character minus personality, sound has no meaning. ... words lack signifying structures ...
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