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100 1 $aBrockett, Oscar Gross,$d1923-
245 10 $aMaking the scene :$ba history of stage design and technology in Europe and the United States /$cOscar Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, Linda Hardberger.
246 30 $aHistory of stage design and technology in Europe and the United States
260 $aSan Antonio, Tex. :$bTobin Theatre Arts Fund,$c2010.
300 $axi, 365 p. :$bill. ( chiefly col.) ;$c31 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 344-352) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rTimothy O'Brien --$tPreface --$tScenic design in ancient Greek and Roman theatres --$tMedieval scenic design --$tThe Italian Renaissance --$tDesign in France and the Holy Roman Empire from 1640 to the early eighteenth century --$tThe influence of Scena per Angolo on eighteenth-century design --$tNeoclassicism and romanticism: a rivalry of opposites --$tRealism and naturalism --$tModernism --$tAmerican new stagecraft, Russian constructivism, epic theatre, and the Bauhaus --$tPost/World War II and the late twentieth century --$tEpilogue: looking toward the twenty-first century.
520 $aTheatrical scene design is one of the world's most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are relatively few books on the subject and almost none for a general audience that combine expansive scholarship with lavish design. The work offers an unprecedented survey of the evolving context, theory, and practice of scene design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world's best-known authority on the subject and enhanced by three hundred full-color illustrations. Individual chapters focus on Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe (including liturgical drama, street pageants, festival outdoor drama, Spanish religious drama, and royal entries), the Italian Renaissance, eighteenth-century Europe, classicism to romanticism, realism and naturalism, modernism, and contemporary scene design. Authors discuss everything from the effects of social status on theater design to the sea changes between classicism, romanticism, and naturalism and the influence of perspective-based techniques, from the classical deus ex machina and special effects in coliseums, to medieval roving stage wagons and the floating ships of the Renaissance, to the computerized practices of today's theaters. Each historical period also includes a discussion of the audience that attended these productions. Such ingenious techniques, interwoven with the sweeping beauty of scene design through the ages, combine with Oscar G. Brockett and Margaret Mitchell's keen scholarship to create a book as compelling as the art it showcases.
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700 1 $aMitchell, Margaret,$d1964-
700 1 $aHardberger, Linda.
710 2 $aTobin Theatre Arts Fund.
752 $aUnited States$bTexas$dSan Antonio.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBrockett, Oscar G. (Oscar Gross), 1923-2010.$tMaking the scene.$dSan Antonio, Tex. : Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, 2010$w(OCoLC)761264853
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