Theatricality and Performativity: Writings on Texture from Plato's Cave to Urban Activism

by Teemu Paavolainen

Book Overview

This book defines theatricality and performativity through metaphors of texture and weaving, drawn mainly from anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Stephen C. Pepper. Tracing the two concepts' various relations to practices of seeing and doing, but also to conflicting values of novelty and normativity, the study proceeds in a series of intertwining threads, from the theatrical to the performative: Antitheatrical (Plato, the Baroque, Michael Fried);...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030103374
• ISBN13: 9783030103378
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"