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Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama - Acts of Seeing (Paperback)
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Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama - Acts of Seeing (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of
modernism, a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy of reality on
stage. Art, Vision & Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama redefines
realism as a complex and under-examined form of visual modernism,
one that positioned theatre at the crux of the encounter between
consciousness and the visible world. Tracing a historical continuum
of "acts of seeing" on the realist stage, Holzapfel demonstrates
how theatre participated in modernity's aggressive interrogation of
vision's residence in the human body. New findings by scientists
and philosophers-such as Diderot, Goethe, Muller, Helmholtz, and
Galton-exposed how the visible world is experienced and framed by
the unstable relativism of the physiological body rather than the
fixed idealism of the mind. Realist artists across media
paradoxically embraced this paradigm shift by focusing on the
embodied observer. Drawing from extensive archival research,
Holzapfel conducts close readings of iconic dramas and their
productions-including Scribe's The Glass of Water, Zola's Therese
Raquin, Ibsen's A Doll House, Strindberg's The Father, and
Hauptmann's Before Sunrise-alongside analyses of artwork by major
painters and photographers-such as Chardin, Nadar, Millais,
Rejlander, and Liebermann. In a radical challenge to existing
criticism, Holzapfel argues that realism in theatre was never the
attempt to reproduce an exact copy of the seen world but rather the
struggle to make visible the act of seeing.
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