Event-Space: Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde
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Book Information
Publisher: | Routledge |
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Publish Date: | 04/22/2015 |
Pages: | 378 |
ISBN-13: | 9780415832168 |
ISBN-10: | 0415832160 |
Language: | English |
Full 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.