Format:
1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781350350519
Series Statement:
Methuen Drama Engage
Content:
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
Note:
Lists of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: the Art Gallery as Muse Chapter 1: How the Art Gallery Came to the Stage The Seduction of the Art Gallery Beckett's Museum Fever and Performative Turn The Art Gallery Experience on Stage Fatal Attraction Plays for Galleries, Plays in Galleries Chapter 2: a Drama of Authenticity, Connoisseurship and Identity Forgeries, Copyrights, and Polaroids Questions of Attribution Estoration or Conservation? True Stories About Fakes. Towards a Metamodern Experience? 'Counterfeit...meets Conceptual!' Chapter 3: Staging the Art Gallery Black Boxes and White Cubes: From Beckett to Crouch This Stage is a Gallery 'Making' the Art Gallery Chapter 4: the Price of Everything Art is Money-sexy All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Works Cited Index
,
Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350330702
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350330719
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350330726
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350330733
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350350519
Bookmarklink
