Developments in technology and new aesthetic idioms in the past decades have changed the preconditions for the scenographer’s work in the theatre. Therefore, it has become problematic indeed to describe scenography as the sum of costume and set, although this continues to be the common definition of the concept. This study focuses on the interactio...
Published in Gradhiva
This article takes a look at museums devoted to the history of war and terror in an expanding Europe, and calls their real mission into question. Careful analysis of a number of museum systems casts doubt upon their ability to present a complex history made up of collective and individual decisions, contradictory stances, and discontinuities, favou...
Published in Géocarrefour
For a long time, the accumulation of functions and geographic centrality explained the attractiveness of city centres. Today, this attractiveness is declining due to the dispersion of these functions and increased mobility. In this context, making cities livelier, as a sign of their urban character, has become a new challenge in the competition bet...
A l'urbain isomorphe, désynchronisés, aux modes de vie différenciés, la fête propose un rassemblement social situé dans le temps et l'espace. Pour les centres villes, concurrencées dans l'étalement urbain, la fête devient un outil permettant de réinventer les espaces publics et d'utiliser leur pouvoir d'incarner la société et de provoquer la rencon...
Cet article revient sur les modalités de sélection et d'exposition des oeuvres dans les différentes expositions d'Africa remix, et s'interroge sur les contextes discursifs et les implicites des mises en scènes. Les ambiguités constatées revalorisent des déterminismes anciens, dont la permanence sous une forme modifiée est notamment perceptible dans...
«Acceptance or rebelliousness? Reflections on Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Las raíces». Generally speaking, Emilia Pardo Bazán’s drama has found little interest among critics. This article focuses on one of her pieces, Las raíces, and deals with diverse topics like themes, sources of the text and main features of the characters. Our study approaches to pos...
Against established knowledge, which conceives of the Baroque stage as a uniform, neatly mechanized ensemble of wings, borders, and backdrops, multiple drawings and material artifacts suggest that eighteenth-century set designers added various pièces détachées to the standard machinery. Thus, free-standing flats were applied manually (by the stageh...
Analytical charts representing interaction of time and space in Jean Giono´s novel cycle. Research of the relation of fiction and reality in novel-writing seems an unnecessary attempt from the point of view of literary criticism. Being for the twentieth century autobiographical elements and for the numerous types of fictional autobiography yet give...
