Staging and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France

Appearing, Revealing, Disappearing

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2023 | New edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1852-0 (ISBN)

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This book discusses the mechanisms and patterns of staging in nineteenth-century France. Often associated with theatre and performance, staging also applies to visual arts. It is thoroughly embedded in a more general cultural development comprising the dissemination of knowledge, political awareness and consumerism. The notion of staging applies to a process of appearing, revealing and disappearing that puts forward new ways for the individual to be seen and to make the self (and the other) visible.Staging determines and questions the process of appearing and disappearing by generating connections and interactions between multiple layers of reality (i.e., artistic, theatrical, literary, and visual) – but according to what criteria, through what mechanisms and with what materials? What are the repercussions of staging, and, even more important, what does staging not show? This book argues that the notion of staging goes beyond interdisciplinarity. Looking at the different ways staging was used and conceived introduces new approaches to understanding visual culture in nineteenth-century France.

Camilla Murgia studied art history at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, with a thesis on Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1752-1842). She was a Junior Research Fellow in the history of art at the University of Oxford (St John’s College) and subsequently taught at the universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva. She is a junior lecturer in history of art at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the visual and material cultures of the long 19th century, with a particular attention to the relationship between theatre and fine arts.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-1852-3 / 1527518523
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1852-0 / 9781527518520
Zustand	Neuware