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This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet ā and in today's performances that recall them.
Mark Franko uses powerful interpretive tools derived from historiography and critical theory, especially the work of German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, to offer the reader both a historical and a theoretical interpretation of this genre of dance in France (c. 1615ā1654), as well as its aftermath and legacy today.
Through doing so, he reaches conclusions about how sovereignty and power were both perceived by viewers at the time and how they were represented through dance, given that it was the noble class who devised and performed court ballets. He enquires into the role of choreography and theatricality as potentially critical forces operating at the heart of sovereignty.
Franko places the work of Louis Marin on power, representation and movement in French Baroque painting and performance in juxtaposition to that of Benjamin on theater. Other historians whose work is prominent in this study are Ernst Kantorowicz, Michel Foucault and JosƩ Antonio Maravall.
With wide breadth in the work of historians, philosophers, political scientists, critical theorists, musicologists and dance historians, this is the culmination of a career's-worth of scholarship and research in the field.
Mark Franko uses powerful interpretive tools derived from historiography and critical theory, especially the work of German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, to offer the reader both a historical and a theoretical interpretation of this genre of dance in France (c. 1615ā1654), as well as its aftermath and legacy today.
Through doing so, he reaches conclusions about how sovereignty and power were both perceived by viewers at the time and how they were represented through dance, given that it was the noble class who devised and performed court ballets. He enquires into the role of choreography and theatricality as potentially critical forces operating at the heart of sovereignty.
Franko places the work of Louis Marin on power, representation and movement in French Baroque painting and performance in juxtaposition to that of Benjamin on theater. Other historians whose work is prominent in this study are Ernst Kantorowicz, Michel Foucault and JosƩ Antonio Maravall.
With wide breadth in the work of historians, philosophers, political scientists, critical theorists, musicologists and dance historians, this is the culmination of a career's-worth of scholarship and research in the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Dedication Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Problem of the Baroque in Trans-historical Perspective
- 1 The Conduct of Contemplation and the Gestural Ethics of Interpretation in Walter Benjaminās āEpistemo-Critical Prologueā
- 2 Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Spectatorship in JoseĢ Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin
- 3 The Problem Ballets: Theatricality and the Paradox of Sovereignty
- 4 The Melancholy of Figurability: Marin with Benjamin and the Allegory of Absolutism
- 5 āA Subtle System of Feintsā: Phenomenological Description and Theatricality in Michel Foucaultās āLas Meninasā
- 6 The Language Model in William Forsytheās Artifact
- Bibliography
- Index
- Imprint