In 1921 Oscar Schlemmer, the Bauhaus artist, wrote about the function of the human form in the theatre in an essay entitled "Man and Art Figure": The history of the theatre is the history of the transformation of the human form. It is the history of man as the actor of physical and spiritual events, ranging from naivete to reflection, from naturalness to artifice.
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