Modern architecture in theater : the experiments of Art et action /

If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This interdisciplinary book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, that defined five distinct types of modern performance, types which mirror social i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Read, Gray (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Architecture as a Performing Art
  • Hearing the Voices of the Universe: Choral Theatre
  • The Festival of Seeing Others and Being Seen: Theatre of Space
  • Artistic Display and Commentary: Theatre of the Book
  • The Spectator and Mass Media: Chamber Theatre
  • Civic Debate: University Theatre
  • Conclusion: The Performance of a Town