Event-space : theatre architecture and the historical avant-garde / Dorita Hannah, with original photography by Marc Goodwin.

Main entry:

Hannah, Dorita, author.

Title & Author:

Event-space : theatre architecture and the historical avant-garde / Dorita Hannah, with original photography by Marc Goodwin.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xxiv, 377 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: event-space: a performance model for architecture -- Disciplining the bourgeois glory machine -- Absolute space: universal landscapes -- Abstract space: toward an architecture of alienation -- Abject space: toward an architecture of cruelty -- Conclusion: making architecture tremble.

Summary:

"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." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9780415832168 hardcover
0415832160 hardcover
9780415832175 paperback
0415832179 paperback
electronic book
9780203491553
ebook
9781135053789

Subject:

Experimental theater History 20th century.
Theater architecture.
Experimental drama 20th century History and criticism.
Architecture des théâtres.
Théâtre expérimental 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Experimental drama.
Experimental theater.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Goodwin, Marc, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302231
Call No.: BIB 248427
Status: Available

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