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

1st Edition

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

By Melissa Trimingham Copyright 2011
230 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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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 historical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration of space with contemporary stages and contemporary ethics, aesthetics and society. The idea of... Read more

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 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 Bibliography Index

Biography

Melissa Trimingham is a Lecturer in Drama at Kent University.

'This is an insightful and penetrating study of Schlemmer's work at the Bauhaus which can be highly recommended to students of the modernist and postmoderist stage.' - Günter Berghaus, Theatre Research International

'Trimingham succeeds not only in presenting a very precise and clear image of Oskar Schlemmer’s work at the Bauhaus, but also in relating his ideas convincingly to modern and postmodern theatre.' - Katharina Wild, Theater for Schung

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