Event-Space: Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde Contributor(s): Hannah, Dorita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415832179 ISBN-13: 9780415832175 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 792.022 |
LCCN: 2017047491 |
Physical Information: 378 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |