Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art Writing
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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.
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.
Explores the intersection between art history, literature, aesthetics and performance theory Argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, incorporating texts that are otherwise absent from art-historical study Contributes to a rethinking of Edwardian culture by focusing on the heterogeneity of modernism
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Sophie Hatchwell
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Roger Fry D S MacColl George Bernard Shaw Henry James Max Beerbohm T Martin Wood Robert Ross Aesthetics Performance theory Art history Nineteenth century
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“The premise of this book is an exciting one, activating art, art criticism, theater, and literature to argue for the distinct nature of Edwardian art criticism and art viewing. Performance is key here, as the author shows that literary and theatrical tropes were employed to construct spectatorship as a social act.” (Morna O'Neill, Wake Forest University, USA)
“This highly original book recasts how we think about art criticism and theory. Its attention to the performative rhetoric of art writing offers new and imaginative forms of interpretation that bring out the social and ideological dimensions of criticism. It will make an important contribution to our understanding of its subject, but its significance goes beyond its immediate theme of Edwardian England to suggest alternative ways of analysing art criticism more generally.” (Professor Matthew Rampley, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
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