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Item Number: 108303
Title: Drama and Desire: Art and Theatre from the French Revolution to the First World War
Author: Cogeval, Guy ; Beatrice Avanzi (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788857203904
Description: Milan: Skira, 2010. 28cm., hardcover, 407pp. prof. illus., most in color. English text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: This book was conceived to accompany an international exhibition that travelled from Marseille to Rovereto and Toronto. The exhibition aimed to connect elements of the modern tradition with the return to interest in Antiquity that emerged in Europe during the period 1750-1800, fuelled by the discovery of Pompeii and the pioneering theories of Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig regarding the dematerialization of the stage. This triggered a surge of passion for theatrical performances and for theatre in general. The period begins in the time of Voltaire and Jacques-Louis David and ends with the last vestiges of Symbolism, a century and a half during which European painters took a continuous interest in the parallel development of stagecraft. What emerges is a symbiotic exchange between the imagery of the stage and that of painting.
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