Beyond everydayness theatre architecture in Central Europe

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The book presents detailed information about the history of 73 of the most important theatre buildings in six countries of Central Europe: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. Each text is accompanied by a wealth of photographic documentation and ground plans and sections on a uniform scale which facilitates their mutual comparison. Theatre architecture is recorded in the book as a characteristic component , of human culture and as a specific building type which, apart from often being itself a unique and artistically valuable structure, also creates a space for another kind of art - theatre art.
The appearance of the theatres was shaped, apart from the aesthetic standards of the day, also by social, political, artistic and technical influences. Some of these were a manifestation of a world-wide development, others represent specific phenomena in the Central European region - in a specific country or town.
The choice of buildings follows the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The book presents detailed information about the history of 73 of the most important theatre buildings in six countries of Central Europe: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. Each text is accompanied by a wealth of photographic documentation and ground plans and sections on a uniform scale which facilitates their mutual comparison. Theatre architecture is recorded in the book as a characteristic component , of human culture and as a specific building type which, apart from often being itself a unique and artistically valuable structure, also creates a space for another kind of art - theatre art.
The appearance of the theatres was shaped, apart from the aesthetic standards of the day, also by social, political, artistic and technical influences. Some of these were a manifestation of a world-wide development, others represent specific phenomena in the Central European region - in a specific country or town.
The choice of buildings follows the features specific for diverse historical periods. These features are outlined in nine more closely or more freely defined themes which are anchored in time and in a certain way characterise the given periods.
The nine basic themes are supplemented by four extensive appendices focussing on phenomena which accompanied the theatre architecture or represent specific phenomena outside of the 'main current' of the development of official theatre buildings. The stories of the individual theatres are set into a broader context in six historical introductions. An outlook for the future is then presented by six interviews with selected experts.
'TACE is not just an overview of history, but a journey rediscovering the nature of Central Europe.' (from the text of the TACE exhibition) Igor Kovacevic
'Architecture is the genre which most sensitively shows the prevailing social state of mind.' (from the opening speech of the TACE exhibition in Budapest) György Spiró
'The singular role that theatres played during the fall of the Iron Curtain, as the epicentres of social transformation, in many ways ties in with their primordial function and purpose, (from the book's foreword) Vaclav Havel Vissza