Overview
Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of modernism, a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy of reality on stage. Art, Vision & Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama redefines realism as a complex and under-examined form of visual modernism, one that positioned theatre at the crux of the encounter between consciousness and the visible world. Tracing a historical continuum of "acts of seeing" on the realist stage, Holzapfel demonstrates how theatre participated in modernityās aggressive interrogation of visionās residence in the human body. New findings by scientists and philosophersāsuch as Diderot, Goethe, MĆ¼ller, Helmholtz, and Galtonāexposed how the visible world is experienced and framed by the unstable relativism of the physiological body rather than the fixed idealism of the mind. Realist artists across media paradoxically embraced this paradigm shift by focusing on the embodied observer. Drawing from extensive archival research, Holzapfel conducts close readings of iconic dramas and their productionsāincluding Scribeās The Glass of Water, Zolaās ThĆ©rĆØse Raquin, Ibsenās A Doll House, Strindbergās The Father, and Hauptmannās Before Sunriseāalongside analyses of artwork by major painters and photographersāsuch as Chardin, Nadar, Millais, Rejlander, and Liebermann. In a radical challenge to existing criticism, Holzapfel argues that realism in theatre was never the attempt to reproduce an exact copy of the seen world but rather the struggle to make visible the act of seeing.
This book title, Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama (Acts of Seeing), ISBN: 9781138927728, by Amy Holzapfel, published by Taylor & Francis (June 8, 2015) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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