TY - BOOK AU - Claire Moran PY - 2013 CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783035304886 TI - The Art of Theatre T2 - Word, Image and Performance in France and Belgium, c. 1830–1910 DO - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0488-6 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052518 N2 - This collection of essays explores the relationship between art, literature and the stage in France and Belgium in the period 1830-1910. It is the first book to bring together scholarship on this neglected area of study and provides unique insights into current research within this rich interdisciplinary field. The rise in popular theatre, the beginnings of a ‘society of spectacle’, the emergence of the print media and the development of stage direction and set design, along with the crisis in pictorial and literary representation, created a dynamic cultural climate wherein the interface between writing, painting and dramatic representation thrived. The chapters in this volume chart different facets of this phenomenon: from the art of performing assumed by writers and the collaborations between artists and theatre directors to the theatrical motifs that infiltrated visual art and the increasingly ‘dramatized’ relationship between painting and spectator at the end of the century. KW - print media, stage direction, set design, crisis LA - English ER -