Spectacle and Performance in the designed landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain

十八世纪英国景观设计中的奇观与表演

• 批准号: 2754934
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2754934
• 关键词: Spectacle; Performance; designed; landscapes; eighteenth

My doctoral project considers the myriad of ways that the higher echelons of eighteenth-century society used their landscapes as impressive spaces in which to entertain and amuse themselves. This research project will explore the nature of spectacle and performance in British country house landscapes during the eighteenth century. This will involve evaluating how a greater attention to the concept of spectacle in designed landscapes between 1740 and 1820 can contribute to understanding country estates as spaces and stages of elite, and national, culture. I will foreground the designed landscapes of country estates and urban centres in tandem to consider spectacular displays in the form of light shows and numachiae, or mock naval battles, to reintegrate country house culture with commercial and metropolitan forms of entertainment. This will foreground investigation into the extent to which artistic and maritime spectacle permeates both popular and elite culture in the eighteenth century. My research will sit within intersections between social, cultural and art history, maritime historical studies and literary studies demonstrating the value of pursuing an interdisciplinary study across research fields concerned with spectacle and performance. The project will consider these spaces as avenues through which to offer new histories of culture and artistic development. Furthermore, its resource base will include a range of houses and landscapes across the British Isles, allowing for careful consideration of the political and cultural influences that the performance of spectacle encouraged across geographical boundaries.

我的博士项目研究了十八世纪社会高层利用风景作为令人印象深刻的娱乐和娱乐空间的多种方式。该研究项目将探索十八世纪英国乡村别墅景观的奇观和表演的本质。这将涉及评估如何更加关注 1740 年至 1820 年间景观设计中的奇观概念，如何有助于将乡村庄园理解为精英和民族文化的空间和舞台。我将把乡村庄园和城市中心的设计景观放在一​​起，考虑以灯光秀和numachiae或模拟海战的形式进行壮观的展示，将乡村别墅文化与商业和大都市的娱乐形式重新整合起来。这将成为对十八世纪艺术和航海景观在多大程度上渗透到大众和精英文化的调查的前景。我的研究将涉及社会、文化和艺术史、航海历史研究和文学研究之间的交叉点，展示在与景观和表演相关的研究领域进行跨学科研究的价值。该项目将把这些空间视为提供新的文化和艺术发展历史的途径。此外，其资源库将包括不列颠群岛的一系列房屋和景观，从而可以仔细考虑奇观表演跨越地理边界所产生的政治和文化影响。