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In the early 1970s, international stage director Robert Wilson began working with a young autistic poet, Christopher Knowles (b. 1959). Knowles’s approach to language as a spatial, pictorial, and sonic art form shaped Wilson’s 1974 piece, A Letter for Queen Victoria and his later opera, Einstein on the Beach (1976).
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Arendell, T.D. (2015). Thinking Spatially, Speaking Visually. In: The Autistic Stage. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-181-6_1
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