Stage Design. Four Centuries of Scenic Invention

Description: STAGE DESIGN - For Centuries Of Scenic Invention Authored by: Donald Oenslager Short excerpt from inside panel of the dust-jacket. One of the most important features of any stage production is the design, the setting, costumes, and lighting. These matters have traditionally been the responsibility of the theater designer, who works with his sponsor, Director, and technicians to achieve the most effective visual means of presenting the dramatic material. Unhappily, after the production has ended, the visual elements usually disappear; before the development of photography, the only record of the stages appearance Lei either in the witnesses recollection of someone who had witnessed the play, opera or spectacle, or if they were preserved, in the sketches made by the designer before the production was mounted. It is fortunate that through the years certain collectors, often designers themselves, have made the effort to keep and document these drawings or paintings sketches, which were made not as a work of art but as a means of conveying the designers ideas to his collaborators. Some may be quick color sketches expressing the overall visual affect the design of plans to create; others, more technical in nature, we're intended, as specific instructions for the set–builders and costume makers. Donald Oenslager, a designer and collector, has for years study the history of theater design by collecting and examining hundreds of drawings that have survived, and in this book he presents for the first time a comprehensive visual and documented survey of theater design of the past 400 years. He gives a summary of what we now know about classical design in in Greece, Rome, and the middle ages, and then discusses and illustrates in detail the work of more than 130 individual designers from the renaissance to today. By incorporating fascinating bibliographical details into his analysis of the context in which these designers worked, and by reproducing more than 250 sketches in color and black-and-white he managed to bring a live theater of yesterday, to allow us to experience the experiment and I felt by those who were fortunate enough to have witnessed the original productions. Condition:Some wear and minor chipping to dust wrapper, private bookplate to first free fly leaf. 303pp, index, bibliography. Small folio. 31 color plates, 217 monochrome plates and illustrations. Gilt lettered red cloth backstrip over black boards. Divided into four sections: Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, Neoclassicism to Realism, and Modern.

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