Art, Education, and African-American Culture: Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy

Description

As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ＆event＊, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself.
Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde＊s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ＆performative architecture＊.
＆Event＊ was of immense significance to modernism＊s revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism 每 and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself.
analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.