
Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art Writing
Sophie Hatchwell(Author)
Palgrave Pivot (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 2019
Book
Hardback
XI, 126 pages
978-3-030-17023-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 otherwise absent from art-historical study. Multi-disciplinary in scope, this book proposes a methodology for analyzing the aesthetic encounter within and through art writing, adapting and reworking a form of phenomenological-semiotic analysis found conventionally in performance studies. It focuses on moments where theories of spectatorship meet practice, moving between the varied spaces of Edwardian art viewing, from the critical text, to the lecture hall, the West End theatre and gallery, middle-class home, and fictional novel. It contributes to a rethinking of Edwardian culture by exploring the intriguing heterogeneity and self-consciousness of viewing practices in a period more commonly associated with the emergence of formalism.
Reviews / Votes
"The premise of this book is an exciting one, activating art, art criticism, theater, and literature to argue for the distinct nature of Edwardian art criticism and art viewing. Performance is key here, as the author shows that literary and theatrical tropes were employed to construct spectatorship as a social act." (Morna O'Neill, Wake Forest University, USA)"This highly original book recasts how we think about art criticism and theory. Its attention to the performative rhetoric of art writing offers new and imaginative forms of interpretation that bring out the social and ideological dimensions of criticism. It will make an important contribution to our understanding of its subject, but its significance goes beyond its immediate theme of Edwardian England to suggest alternative ways of analysing art criticism more generally." (Professor Matthew Rampley, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
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Series
Edition
2019 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 farbige Abbildung, 4 s/w Abbildungen
XI, 126 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-17023-3 (9783030170233)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-17024-0
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Person
Sophie Hatchwell is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Auctioning Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon: A Sales History 1990-2015 (2017) and Auctioning Stanley Spencer: A Sales History 1990-2015 (2017).
Content
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.