Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art by Sophie Hatchwell HARDBACK

Name: Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art by Sophie Hatchwell HARDBACK
Brand: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Explore how Edwardian art writing shaped embodied, performative aesthetic spectatorship. This book expands the definition of art writing by featuring diverse critical and fictional works often absent from art-historical study. It proposes a multi-disciplinary methodology for analyzing aesthetic encounters within art writing, adapting phenomenological-semiotic analysis from performance studies. Focusing on the intersection of spectatorship theories and practice, the book moves through various Edwardian art viewing spaces, including critical texts, lecture halls, West End theatres and galleries, middle-class homes, and fictional novels. This work contributes to a re-evaluation of Edwardian culture by highlighting the intriguing heterogeneity and self-consciousness of viewing practices during a period more commonly linked to the rise of formalism. Summary: ISBN 9783030170233. Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art Writing by Sophie Hatchwell. Features 126 pages and a hardcover format. Language version: English. First edition.