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Author Popenhagen, Ron J., 1953- author.

Title Modernist disguise : masquerade in modern performance and visual culture / Ron J. Popenhagen.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
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Series Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Contents Impressions of the covered body -- Facing change and changing masks -- Reforming and uniforming the body -- Feigned and distorted bodyscapes -- Actors' effigies and photo-portraits -- Fractured and effaced façades -- Other places.
Summary Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary culture. Looks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel references to theatricality and performativity in visual arts and visual culture. Comments upon masquerade's foundation in popular performance throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, frequently alluding to significant images from the history of photography. Theorises masquerade within the context of European theatre and drama scholarship, as well as British and European conservatory arts and performance training. Employs critical thinking influenced by phenomenological and semiotic analyses of performance. This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects. Popenhagen traces artistic disguising from fin de siecle Pierrots in Paris, Marseille and Vienna to early twentieth-century masquerading in Moscow and Zurich. He explores identity play and display through the complementary lenses of image studies, cultural history and performance theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-239) and index.
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Subject Masquerades -- Europe.
Masquerades.
Europe.
Performance art -- Europe.
Performance art.
Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Art and society.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Performance art.
Other Form: Print version: 147447005X 9781474470056 (OCoLC)1183423958
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