{"product_id":"event-space-dorita-hannah-9780415832175","title":"Event-Space: Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political 'event', the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvent-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde's championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of 'performative architecture'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Event' was of immense significance to modernism's revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism - and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. \u003ci\u003eEvent-Space\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorita Hannah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415832179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415832175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Dorita Hannah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076045959423,"sku":"9780415832175","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b48864f3-70ba-4d96-9b23-95edf7bfe60a.jpg?v=1685462866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/event-space-dorita-hannah-9780415832175","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}