For an aesthetic, economic and social problematisation of contemporary theatre

Pour une problématisation esthétique, économique et sociale du théâtre contemporain

Philippe Henry ()
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Philippe Henry: Scènes et savoirs - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis

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Abstract: The article presents a problematisation of the state of our personal research at the end of the 1990s that has remained the foundation of our subsequent work. The text also intended to provide a frame of reference for students engaging in research after their Bachelor's degree in theatrical studies. It specifies a set of theoretical references on which our research is based. It develops a systemic approach to the contemporary theatrical sector in France according to three privileged dimensions. First, theatre is apprehended as a specific socio-relational device, which is the very base of its aesthetic and communicational potential. In a socio-economic approach, theatre then appears as a particular service economy, in which the role of a wide variety of judgment prescribers is decisive. Theatre is finally approached in its institutional dimension as an artistic field, historically constituted and subject to the current changes of our societies. The main pragmatic and theoretical stake would then lie in our ability to take into account these three dimensions on an equal footing and to consider the most relevant way of articulating and regulating them for our present time.

Keywords: Esthétique; Théâtre; Socio-économie; Performing arts; Socio-economic approach; Aesthetic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-10
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Published in Théârtre, 1999

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