Title: The art of theatre : word, image and performance in France and Belgium, c. 1830-1910 /
Authors: Moran, Claire
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Theater France History Congresses.; Theater France History Congresses.; Theater Belgium History Congresses.; Theater Belgium History Congresses.
Abstract: This collection of essays explores the relationship between art, literature and the stage in France and Belgium in the period 1830-1910. It is the first book to bring together scholarship on this neglected area of study and provides unique insights into current research within this rich interdisciplinary field. The rise in popular theatre, the beginnings of a {u2018}society of spectacle{u2019}, the emergence of the print media and the development of stage direction and set design, along with the crisis in pictorial and literary representation, created a dynamic cultural climate wherein the interface between writing, painting and dramatic representation thrived. The chapters in this volume chart different facets of this phenomenon: from the art of performing assumed by writers and the collaborations between artists and theatre directors to the theatrical motifs that infiltrated visual art and the increasingly {u2018}dramatized{u2019} relationship between painting and spectator at the end of the century. -- From publisher's website.
Contents: Introduction / Claire Moran -- Part I Cultures of performance in the nineteenth century - The Offenbach century / Laurence Senelick - Barbey d'Aurevilly and Mlle Duverger: spectacle and performance in the Théâtre de la Gaîté and Le Gaulois / Karen Humphreys - L'art marionnettique: laboratoire de la mondernité dramaturique / Séverine Reyrolle - Le tableau vivant et la scéne du corps: vision, pulsion, dispositif / Arnaud Rykner -- Part II Exchanges and collaborations - Interior and stage: Intimisme in the work of Édouard Vuillard / Sandra Bornemann - Paul Ranson. Alfred Jarry and Nabi Puppet Theatres / Jill Fell - Un peintre au théâtre: les décors de Geiorge Desvallières pour le Théâtre des Arts, 1911-1913 / Camille Racine - The enchanted early world of the Ballets Russe: Exploring visual arts and theatrical collaborations / Katherine Hoffman - Exposition et reconnaissance de la femme-fleur dans La Curée: variations sur les tableaux vivants, mise en scène de la stérilité / Ause Campmas - Portraits de l'insaisissable: l'art et la répresentation d'Arsène Lupin sur scène / Dominique Jeannerod -- Part III Aesthetics: towards an art of theatre - 'Spectacle dans un fauteuil': naissance d'un genre iconographique, 1825-1840 / Olivia Voisin - A play within a play: Manet's self-portraits and the art of performance / Claire Moran - Degas and Zola: piercing the veil / Karen Stock - The bibliophile's book as theatrical performanceL Pelléas de Mélisandre illustrated by Fernand Khnopff / Xavier Fontaine - Masks, modernity and egoism: theatrical practice in James Ensor and Maurice Maeterlinck / Andrei Pop - Staging and writing the arabesque: the aesthetics of line in Nabi painting and avant-garde theatre in the late nineteenth century / Clément Dessy -- Notes on contributors -- Index.