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Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama - Acts of Seeing (Hardcover, New)
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Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama - Acts of Seeing (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of
modernism, a simple or crude attempt to copy objective reality on
stage. This book challenges this misconception by redefining
realism as an under-examined form of visual modernism that
positioned theatre at the crux of the unstable interaction between
consciousness and the visible world. Tracing a historical continuum
of acts of seeing occurring on the realist stage, Holzapfel
illustrates 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. The
book illustrates how realist artists across media embraced this
paradigm shift, destabilizing the myth of a direct correspondence
between reality and representation by giving focus in their art to
the subject of 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 intensive
considerations of artwork by painters and photographers like
Chardin, Manet, Nadar, Millais, Rejlander, and Liebermann to show
how realist drama was influenced by new approaches towards vision
arising in science, visual art, and visual culture. In a radical
departure from the dominant critical approach to realism, Holzapfel
argues that what realist dramatists sought on stage was not a copy
of objective reality but greater acknowledgment of the gap that
exists between the eye and the world."
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