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Modernist disguise : masquerade in modern performance and visual culture / Ron J. Popenhagen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Popenhagen, Ron J., 1953- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance art.
- Masquerades.
- Art and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This text highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 IMPRESSIONS OF THE COVERED BODY
- 2 FACING CHANGE AND CHANGING MASKS
- 3 REFORMING AND UNIFORMING THE BODY
- 4 FEIGNED AND DISTORTED BODYSCAPES
- 5 ACTORS’ EFFIGIES AND PHOTO-PORTRAITS
- 6 FRACTURED AND EFFACED FAÇADES
- 7 OTHER PLACES
- EXHIBITIONS AND WEBSITES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-7008-4
- 1-4744-9599-0
- 1-4744-7007-6
- OCLC:
- 1306538128
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