Concepts of Theatricality in Contemporary Art History

Autor:	Michael L. Quinn
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Literature History Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry Historiography computer.software_genre Postmodernism Contemporary art Documentation Periodization Literary criticism Narrative business computer Interpreter
Zdroj:	Theatre Research International. 20:106-113
ISSN:	1474-0672 0307-8833
Popis:	Theatre historians often turn to art history, not only for information about source images that can help with the speculative reconstruction of lost performances, but also for lessons in historiographic method. Historians from both disciplines have long shared the difficulties of ‘ekphrasis’, i.e. the translation of nondiscursive images into descriptions, and vice versa, as well as other vexing problems of general history like periodization, documentation of events, and so on. Unlike theatre history, art history has a recognized pantheon of interpreters, which has been subjected to overview studies like Michael Podro'sThe Critical Historians of Artas well as specific treatments of major critics and their influence, like Michael Ann Holly's work on Panofsky. Theoretical concerns about historiography, sometimes assumed by literary critics of ‘master narratives’ to be synonymous with postmodernism, developed somewhat earlier in art historical writing, which would appear to be an advantage.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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