Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas.
The book launches from a matrix of related "platforms" - a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen's sketches - to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change. Engaging theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergent desire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public.
| ISBN: | 9780810129863 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2015 |
| Author: | Mimi Yiu |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Rethinking the Early Modern |
| Genres: |
Architecture History |
Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas.
Architectural Involutions features in the following genres: Architecture, History
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Architectural Involutions was written by Mimi Yiu and published by Northwestern University Press
Architectural Involutions has 320 pages
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