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The Theatre of the Bauhaus: the Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer

Trimingham, Melissa (2011) The Theatre of the Bauhaus: the Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies . Routledge, New York and London, 214 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-40398-6. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:26299)

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Abstract

Focusing on the work of painter,

choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the ‘Master Magician’ and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this book explains this ‘theatre of high modernism’ and its his-torical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration of space with contemporary stages and

contemporary ethics, aesthetics and society.

In demonstrating the Bauhaus stage work to be an evolving and embodied experience,

central to Bauhaus Modernism, the writer

offers a new interpretation of the institution as a whole, in terms of a ‘post’ modern fissure in the Bauhaus master plan, a fissure that be-gins on its stage.

Selected Contents:

1: The Theatre of the Bauhaus

2: Modernism

3: Space: Light and Scenery

4: Body and Motion

5: Body and Objects

6: Sound

7: Time

8: Afterword Notes

This volume will be of use to

students and academics involved in the

areas of twentieth-century performance, the history of performance art, the history of avant-garde theatre, modern German theatre, and Weimar-era performance

Item Type: Book
Subjects: A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship. The Humanities
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics
N Visual Arts > NX Arts in general
D History General and Old World > DD Germany
N Visual Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User: Melissa Trimingham
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2011 15:38 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:04 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/26299 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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