Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art Writing

• Main Author: Hatchwell, Sophie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Subjects: Performing arts.; Theater-History.; Drama.; Performing Arts.; Theatre History.

This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often including texts that are other...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: An Invitation
• 2. Characterising the Viewer
• 3. Spectatorship and Ekphrasis
• 4. Staging Spectatorship
• 5. Staging Art
• 6. Domesticity, Decoration and Role Play
• 7. Conclusion.