Event-Space : Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde Paperback / softback
by Dorita (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA) Hannah
Paperback / softback
Description
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself.
Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’. ‘Event’ was of immense significance to modernism’s revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism – and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself.
Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:378 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/07/2018
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- ISBN:9780415832175
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:378 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/07/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415832175