LEADER 04204cam 2200577 i 4500001 ocn811598662 003 OCoLC 005 20141212071354.0 008 130603s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2013018912 020 9780415821766 (hardback) 020 0415821762 (hardback) 020 |z9780203557204 (ebook) 035 (Sirsi) 40023810847 035 40023810847 035 (OCoLC)811598662 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dERASA |dOCLCF |dBUF |dOCLCO |dNhCcYBP |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e------ 050 00 PN1851 |b.H65 2014 082 00 809.2/04034 |223 084 PER011000ART009000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Holzapfel, Amy. |=^A1186835 245 10 Art, vision, and nineteenth-century realist drama : |bacts of seeing / |cAmy Holzapfel. 264 1 New York : |bRoutledge, |c2014. 300 xvi, 227 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 490 1 Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; |v32 520 "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, Müller, 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 Thérèse 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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: acts of seeing -- Scribe's actions of seeing -- Zola's tunnel vision -- Ibsen's ocular realism -- Strindberg's composites -- Hauptmann's lived perspective -- Conclusion: seeing realism. 650 0 European drama |y19th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A157077 650 0 Realism in literature. |=^A23318 650 0 Vision in literature. |=^A140585 650 7 PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General. |2bisacsh 650 7 ART / Criticism & Theory. |2bisacsh 650 7 European drama. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00916697 650 7 Literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 Realism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01091228 650 7 Vision. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01167852 648 7 1800 - 1899 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies |v32. |=^A571745 949 |i30372013835035 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s125.00 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 598 JNEWBOOKS 596 1 998 3502081