Les Grands Spectacles: 120 Years Of Art And Mass Culture
By Magrit Brehm.
Description
The arts have changed since 1885, and Les Grands Spectacles sets out to document this evolution in three phases. Starting with the invention of film and the standardisation of the bourgeois theatre-house in the late 19th century, the book then focuses on the modernisation and dissemination of the mass media after World War Two, and finally arrives at the situation of art at the beginning of the new millennium, where events cultivate a theatrical quality, and the individual's every intimate impulse can become entertainment for the masses. Les Grands Spectacles also shows what effects th...
ISBN(s)
3775716564, 9783775716567
