[ebooks] Non-Destructive Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Non-Destructive Testing Methods: 2 (Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering) by From Woodhead Publishing in Arts-Photography

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Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of modernism; a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy of reality on stage. Art; Vision Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama redefines realism as a complex and under-examined form of visual modernism; one that positioned theatre at the crux of the encounter between consciousness and the visible world. Tracing a historical continuum of "acts of seeing" on the realist stage; Holzapfel demonstrates how theatre participated in modernityrsquo;s aggressive interrogation of visionrsquo;s residence in the human body. New findings by scientists and philosophersmdash;such as Diderot; Goethe; Muuml;ller; Helmholtz; and Galtonmdash;exposed how the visible world is experienced and framed by the unstable relativism of the physiological body rather than the fixed idealism of the mind. Realist artists across media paradoxically embraced this paradigm shift by focusing on the embodied observer. Drawing from extensive archival research; Holzapfel conducts close readings of iconic dramas and their productionsmdash;including Scribersquo;s The Glass of Water; Zolarsquo;s Theacute;regrave;se Raquin; Ibsenrsquo;s A Doll House; Strindbergrsquo;s The Father; and Hauptmannrsquo;s Before Sunrisemdash;alongside analyses of artwork by major painters and photographersmdash;such as Chardin; Nadar; Millais; Rejlander; and Liebermann. In a radical challenge to existing criticism; Holzapfel argues that realism in theatre was never the attempt to reproduce an exact copy of the seen world but rather the struggle to make visible the act of seeing.