Hatchwell Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art Writing

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-17024-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 126 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often including texts that are otherwise absent from art-historical study. Multi-disciplinary in scope, this book proposes a methodology for analyzing the aesthetic encounter within and through art writing, adapting and reworking a form of phenomenological-semiotic analysis found conventionally in performance studies. It focuses on moments where theories of spectatorship meet practice, moving between the varied spaces of Edwardian art viewing, from the critical text, to the lecture hall, the West End theatre and gallery, middle-class home, and fictional novel. It contributes to a rethinking of Edwardian culture by exploring the intriguing heterogeneity and self-consciousness of viewing practices in a period more commonly associated with the emergence of formalism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hatchwell, Sophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: An Invitation.- 2. Characterising the Viewer.- 3. Spectatorship and Ekphrasis.- 4. Staging Spectatorship.- 5. Staging Art.- 6. Domesticity, Decoration and Role Play.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Sophie Hatchwell
is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of
Auctioning Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon: A Sales History 1990-2015
(2017) and
Auctioning Stanley Spencer: A Sales History 1990-2015 
(2017).