the model as performance staging space in theatre and architecture

• Main Authors: Brejzek, Thea (Author), Wallen, Lawrence (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2018
• Subjects: Space (Architecture) > Models > History; Theaters > Models > History
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 "'The model as performance' investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition. Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model, the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present, idea and reality, that challenges and redefines the relationship between object, viewer and environment." -- rear cover.