books by Louise Steinman (storyteller unabridged 1995-1998)

books by Louise Steinman

books:

The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War {Unabridged} {Audio} {Cd}
Louise Steinman, 2006

When Norman Steinman a member of the 25th Infantry Division, which fought in the Philippines in 1945 died in 1990, he left behind a box full of WWII letters (more than 400), later discovered by his daughter. Among the souvenirs was a small Japanese flag, inscribed with words Louise could not read. She had them translated and found that the flag had belonged to a Japanese soldier. Obsessed, Steinman began her search for him or his family. This ...

The Knowing Body: The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance

2 reviews
Louise Steinman

North Atlantic Books, 1995

Essential reading for shamans, performers, and humans.
For some reason, this book is still the only one of its kind, delving into the performance art philosophies of Meredith Monk, Barbara Dilley, Ping Chong, and Spalding Gray, just to name a few. Beautifully illustrated, this book explores dance and performance art from a kind of Jungian/shamanist/Buddhist perspective. You can learn from this book just what it means to be an artist--or just what ...

Finding Family Stories: An Arts Partnership 1995-1998
Judy Chan, Luis Alfaro, ...

Japanese Amer Natl Museum, 1998

The articles and artwork in this catalogue developed out of a three-year Arts Partnership project between the Japanese American National Museum and its Southern California neighbors. Institutional partners included the Korean American Museum, Plaza de la Raza, Watts Towers Arts Center, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, and the Skirball Cultural Center. The catalogue includes color reproductions of artwork that appeared in the ...

The Souvenir
Louise Steinman

Recorded Books, 2002

Six cassettes. Unabridged.

The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War

18 reviews
Louise Steinman

North Atlantic Books, 2008

AN EXCELLENT READ AND A WORK VERY WELL DONE!
Like so many in my generation, the author, like the rest of us, really had no clue as to what made her father tick. These men, and women, of the "Greatest Generation" were a different breed. I had to blink twice when the author described her father, his attitudes, work ethic, treatment of his family and on and on. She could have well been describing my own father. The author, after her ...