Architectural Involutions : Writing, Staging, and Building Space, c. 1435-1650 Hardback
by Mimi Yiu
Part of the Rethinking the Early Modern series
Hardback
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Taking the reader on an inward journey from facades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority.
As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas.
The book launches from a matrix of related "platforms" - a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen's sketches - to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change.
Engaging theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergent desire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:277 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2015
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- ISBN:9780810129863
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:277 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2015
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- ISBN:9780810129863
