Author: Mariacristina Cavecchi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135033071X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization. The study analyzes the impact on dramatic form and theatrical presentation of what has been a paradigmatic shift in the way art galleries and museums display their collections and how these are perceived, establishing a hitherto unexplored connection between modes of exhibiting and modes of representation. It traces a trajectory from plays that were initially performed in traditional theatres in accordance with a naturalistic play structure to plays that favour of a radical reconfiguration of visual representation. Indeed, since the beginning of the new millennium, playwrights and theatre-makers have increasingly experimented with new dramatic forms and site-specific venues, while forging collaborations with art makers and curators. The book focuses on plays from the 1980s onwards, such as Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution, Nick Dear's The Art of Success, Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field and The Line, David Edgar's Pentecost, Martin Crimp's Attempt on Her Life, Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna and The Painter, David Leddy's Long Live the Little Knife, and Tim Crouch's My Arm, An Oak Tree and England, and considers the vital contribution to the field made by set designers. Ultimately, through this study, we come to understand how modern drama can offer a set of interpretative tools to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the social construction of art and, furthermore, the potential of theatre and the gallery space to question our fundamental cultural assumptions and values.
The Art Gallery on Stage
Author: Mariacristina Cavecchi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135033071X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization. The study analyzes the impact on dramatic form and theatrical presentation of what has been a paradigmatic shift in the way art galleries and museums display their collections and how these are perceived, establishing a hitherto unexplored connection between modes of exhibiting and modes of representation. It traces a trajectory from plays that were initially performed in traditional theatres in accordance with a naturalistic play structure to plays that favour of a radical reconfiguration of visual representation. Indeed, since the beginning of the new millennium, playwrights and theatre-makers have increasingly experimented with new dramatic forms and site-specific venues, while forging collaborations with art makers and curators. The book focuses on plays from the 1980s onwards, such as Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution, Nick Dear's The Art of Success, Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field and The Line, David Edgar's Pentecost, Martin Crimp's Attempt on Her Life, Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna and The Painter, David Leddy's Long Live the Little Knife, and Tim Crouch's My Arm, An Oak Tree and England, and considers the vital contribution to the field made by set designers. Ultimately, through this study, we come to understand how modern drama can offer a set of interpretative tools to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the social construction of art and, furthermore, the potential of theatre and the gallery space to question our fundamental cultural assumptions and values.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135033071X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization. The study analyzes the impact on dramatic form and theatrical presentation of what has been a paradigmatic shift in the way art galleries and museums display their collections and how these are perceived, establishing a hitherto unexplored connection between modes of exhibiting and modes of representation. It traces a trajectory from plays that were initially performed in traditional theatres in accordance with a naturalistic play structure to plays that favour of a radical reconfiguration of visual representation. Indeed, since the beginning of the new millennium, playwrights and theatre-makers have increasingly experimented with new dramatic forms and site-specific venues, while forging collaborations with art makers and curators. The book focuses on plays from the 1980s onwards, such as Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution, Nick Dear's The Art of Success, Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field and The Line, David Edgar's Pentecost, Martin Crimp's Attempt on Her Life, Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna and The Painter, David Leddy's Long Live the Little Knife, and Tim Crouch's My Arm, An Oak Tree and England, and considers the vital contribution to the field made by set designers. Ultimately, through this study, we come to understand how modern drama can offer a set of interpretative tools to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the social construction of art and, furthermore, the potential of theatre and the gallery space to question our fundamental cultural assumptions and values.
Hearing on the Reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and state
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and state
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Impact of the Administration's Proposed Fiscal 1984 Budget on Arts, Humanities, and Museums
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Budget Allocation for the Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and Museums and Libraries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1982
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Impact of Administration's Fiscal 1983 Budget Proposals on National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities and the Institute of Museum Services
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Revenue Increase Options
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tax administration and procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tax administration and procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1989: Testimony of public witnesses, energy programs, Institute of Museum Services, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description