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.
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ISBN
9783030170240
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Pivot
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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