"Scenography is science": Miroslav Kouril, his theory of scenography and the Institute of Scenography in Prague
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
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| Description | Scenography, including its possible definitions as well as ways to understand and analyze it, is a topic of wide international research interest. In the Czechoslovak tradition, within which the notion of “scenography” referring back to the artistic practices of the Renaissance period was re-introduced after the Second World War, different attempts at defining scenography appeared. One of the approaches to scenography, almost forgotten today, was developed by Miroslav Kouřil, Czech scenographer and self-proclaimed theorist of scenography. His concept and writings that underpin it theoretically are embedded in the ideas of the Czech structuralism and it was formed and distributed through institutions focused on scenography. In my today’s talk I would like to present our research on the noteworthy and somewhat fascinating phenomenon of Miroslav Kouřil and his theories of scenography and the Institute of Scenography he had established. |
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