Staging the Symbol: the Nabis, theatre decoration, and the total work of art

Diplôme Thèse Staging the Symbol: the Nabis, theatre decoration, and the total work of art eng 2013-03-09 author Van Tilburg Merel 636945 director Gamboni Dario Libero 135556 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:27443 urn:nbn:ch:unige-274434 L. 778 Staging the Symbol is a study of the project of the total work of art in Symbolist theatre and Nabi art. As with Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk, this project was always conceived as a dream to be realised, an "artwork of the future". During the first half of the 1890s, the members of the Nabi group dreamed of the future realisation a more complete artwork paralleling "nature" or "life". They thus continued the project formulated by René Ghil for Symbolist poetry in 1886: "chercher, induisant de Symbole en Symbole, la raison de la Nature et de la Vie." Similarly, the first Symbolist performances at the Théâtre d'Art were considered as try-outs or essays in view of the creation of a full-fledged Symbolist theatre - which remained, essentially, a series of experiments. In six chapters, Staging the Symbol discusses the cross-fertilisation between Nabi painting and Symbolist theatre in Paris between 1891 and 1895, which focused on the mise en scène of the symbol as a synthetic sign, in a Wagnerian project of a synthesis of the arts. Nabis Gesamtkunstwerk Symbolist theatre Stage design Dewey 700 91 Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie 3I false 98fc9d64-76ef-44ee-8262-f2b87b9fb0c0 Unité d'histoire de l'art 53389d26-52e4-4afa-91b0-827b918c6fbf Thesis Public Van.pdf 2120659 application/pdf fbc03d563d1140d9bcaee9bc260db0c5b652944f8b5de25a25c6c71b0f4083d4 openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie

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