A pioneering publication!
Scenography & Art History
Our anthology Scenography and Art History reimagines
scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the
importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. The book was published in June 2021 by Bloomsbury.
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Cover photo: Rena Narumi, Dancer, the Royal Swedish Ballet, Karolina Henke/Skarp 2014.
The aim of the project and book is to
■Discuss the ways in which reimagined scenography both revitalizes and critically expands how art history and related branches of study address events, objects and actions in all sorts of environments.
■Examine how scenography is no longer restricted to the traditional space of the theatre, but has responded to theoretical changes and become an important art history concept for approaching historical and contemporary visual objects, actions and events.
■Explore reimagined scenography not solely as a critical approach and theoretical concept, but also as an important practice linked with unseen labour in a great variety of contexts (such as live concerts, fashion settings, advertising or archival studies).
■Consider the future of scenography by
investigating the rise of new ways of applying the concept within art history and
related branches of study.
Photo / film credit: Linda Sternö and Karin Ekberg.
Pioneering Publication!
