The model as performance : staging space in theatre and architecture / by Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brejzek, Thea, author.

Wallen, Lawrence, author.

Series:

Performance + design.

Performance + design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space (Architecture)--Models--History.

Space (Architecture).

Theaters--Models--History.

Theaters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2020.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"'The model as performance' investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition."

"Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model, the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present, idea and reality, that challenges and redefines the relationship between object, viewer and environment."--Cover.

Contents:

Introduction

The model as object and idea

Staging politics and knowledge through the model

Performing architecture: Edward Gordon Craig and the model stage

Staging the future: the model as performance of inhabitation

Performing the past: the full-scale model and mock up

Staging the white cube: the autonomous model as a performance of space.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474271387 (hbk.)

9781474271394

1474271391

9781474271400

1474271405

OCLC:

1201426091