Contents
About this book ix
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction : Festive architecture : agon, liminality, and representation 1
Christian Frost, Raymond Lucas, Jemma Browne
The Festival in History
1. `Pruning and propagating civic behaviour: three feste in and around Santa Maria della Vittoria in Mantua, 1495-97' - Italy 17
Susan Janet May
2. A Contemporary Reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to Festival and the Elizabethan Notion of `Lost Sense of Sight'- UK Constance Lau 35
3. Festa della Chinea: Tradition and the 'Exotic' in Roman Festival Design -Italy 49
Nicholas Temple
4. "Honneurs et applaudissements": Celebrating the first Jesuit Saints in 17th Century- France 63
Iara Alejandra Dundas
The Festival Through History
5. Script and Score: Revisiting Nelson Goodman at Sanja Matsuri 81
Japan Raymond Lucas
6. The Calcio Storico in Florence: Agonistic Ritual and the Space of Civic Order- Italy 97
Christian Frost
7. The Festal Topography of Andre Breton's Paris 113
France Dagmar Motycka Weston
8. The Town of Witches: Triora Transfixed - Italy 131
Grace Alexandra Williams
9. Festival, Ritual and Rhetoric of the Arabian Market Street - Middle East 142
Jasmine Shahin
Meaning in the Modern Festival
10. A Better Life For More People: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's contribution for the Festival of Britain -UK Paola Zanotto 159
11. A Vigorous Corrective: The Ulster `71 Festival - Northern Ireland 172
Sarah Anne Lappin and Una Walker
12. The Pope, the Park and the City: Dublin, 1979 -Republic of Ireland 189
Gary Boyd Brian Ward and
13. Urban Fabric: Maria Lai at Ulassai,- Sardinia 1981 201
David Chandler
14. The Social Architecture of Contemporary Cultural Festivals: Connecting People,
the Environment and Art in the Setouchi Triennale - Japan 217
Simone Shu-Yeng Chung
15. Tahrir Square's Festive Imagination- Egypt
Hazem Ziada 230
Index 245