proscenium arches
proscenium arches is the plural of proscenium arch.
Meaning of proscenium arch
Noun
proscenium arch (plural proscenium arches)
- The arch that frames a theater stage, and separates it from the auditorium.
- The arts have traditionally employed devices that seem designed to assist the spectator in lifting the occasion out of any practical context and placing it in a special, autonomous space of its own. The pedestal and the stage raise sculpture and theatre above the plane of ordinary life, the frame...1994 July, Arnold Berleant, “Beyond Disinterestedness”, in British Journal of Aesthetics, XXXIV:iii, page 247
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