Event-Space: Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde

Author:   Dorita Hannah (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA) ,  Marc Goodwin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415832168


Pages:   378
Publication Date:   12 July 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dorita Hannah (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA) ,  Marc Goodwin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9780415832168


ISBN 10:   0415832160
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   12 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"PREFACE: TOWARD A THEORY OF ‘SPACING’ THROUGH AVANT-GARDE ACTION INTRODUCTION: EVENT-SPACE: A PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURE Architecture as Event Event-Space: A Useful Paradigm In Motion Space (becoming-performance of architecture) Event (becoming-architecture of performance) (Re)Birth of the Will-to-Destruction Avant-gardism and Modernism CHAPTER 1: DISCIPLINING THE BOURGEOIS GLORY MACHINE ""Our provisional theatre at Bayreuth"" The Baroque Model and Post-Revolutionary Performativity Garnier’s Architecture as Mise-en-scène The Glory Machine The Case of Bayreuth A New Public The Invisible Theatre CHAPTER 2: ABSOLUTE SPACE: UNIVERSAL LANDSCAPES ""The Beginning… The Birth…"" Absolute Stage Space Symbolist ""Theatre of the Mind"" Dancing Architectures Duncan’s Temple Spatial Rhythm and Universal Landscapes Adolphe Appia Architecture as Temple-Laboratory Hellerau Resisting the Black Void The New Monumentality of Absolute Space CHAPTER 3: ABSTRACT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF ALIENATION The ""Troubled Art"": Avant-gardism Divided City as a ""Montage of Attractions"" Stage Space – Space Stage Bauhaus Festivities Total Theatre: The ""Great Stage Machine"" Architectures of Alienation Ghost in the Machine CHAPTER 4: ABJECT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF CRUELTY Violence Takes Centre Stage Spatial Violence Bravo! And Boom, Boom! Abjection: eROTic Object Palace of Culture Enter Artaud (Flinging Bombs) An Architecture against Architecture A Site of Recovery Dis-eased Body Ex-ploding Space De-centring Architecture Cruel Machine CONCLUSION: MAKING ARCHITECTURE TREMBLE Nietzsche’s Architect(ure) Building Babel"

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Dorita Hannah works across the spatial, visual and performing arts as a scholar and design practitioner specializing in theatre architecture and performance design. She is a Professor affiliated with the University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of Tasmania (Australia) and Aalto University (Finland).

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