Theatre and performance design : a reader in scenography /
Theatre and performance design : a reader in scenography /
edited by Jane Collins and Andrew Nisbet.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xxix, 400 pages) : illustrations
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Appearance and reality / The simile of the cave / The draughtsman's contract : how an artist creates an image / The camera obscura and its subject / Meditations on a hobby horse or the roots of artistic form / From Camera Lucida / The most concealed object / Fascination and obsession / Of other spaces / From The production of space / For a hierarchy of means of expression on the stage / A taxonomy of spatial function / 6 axioms for environmental theatre : axiom three / Site-specifics / Dancing in the streets : the sensuous manifold as a concept for designing experience / Grounding / Towards an aesthetic of virtual reality / The house, from cellar to garret, the significance of the hut / Making and contesting time-spaces / Postmodern design / "Oh, to make boardes to speak!" / Stage designs of a single gesture : the early work of Robert Edmond Jones / Foreword to The stage is set / Hope, hopelessness-- presence, absence : scenographic innovation and the poetic spaces of Jo Mielziner, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller / Brecht and stage design : the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer / The diseases of costume / My idea of the theatre / Visual composition, mostly / Defining and reconstructing theatre sound / On performance writing / Docile bodies / Eye and mind / Of language and the flesh / From Adorned in dreams / The actor and the über-marionette / Man and art figure / From Towards a poor theatre / Woman, man, dog, tree : two decades of intimate and monumental bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater / The will to evolve / Glow : an interview with Gideon Obarzanek / The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility : second version / Interaction between text and reader / Semiotics / Limits of analysis, limits of theory and Pavis's questionnaire / Sound design : the scenography of engagement and distraction / Olfactory performances / The naturalistic theatre and the theatre of mood / Theatre and cruelty / The humanist theatre ; The catastrophic theatre ; The cult of accessibility and the theatre of obscurity / Drawing in rehearsal / Speech introducing Freud / From The secret of theatrical space / Bertrand Russell -- Plato -- John Willats -- Jonathan Crary -- Ernst Gombrich -- Roland Barthes -- Herbert Blau -- Susan Bennett -- Michel Foucault -- Henri Lefebvre -- Adolphe Appia -- Gay McAuley -- Richard Schechner -- Nick Kaye -- Scott Palmer and Sita Popat -- Andrew Todd -- Gabriella Giannachi -- Gaston Bachelard -- Doreen Massey -- Arnold Aronson -- Nicholas Till -- Arthur B. Feinsod -- Lee Simonson -- Liam Doona -- Christopher Baugh -- Roland Barthes -- Tadeusz Kantor -- Richard Foreman -- Adrian Curtin -- Tim Etchells -- Michel Foucault -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Thomas Laqueuer -- Elizabeth Wilson -- Edward Gordon Craig -- Oskar Schlemmer -- Jerzy Grotowski -- Gabrielle Cody -- Jane Goodall -- Cristiane Bouger -- Walter Benjamin -- Wolfgang Iser -- Lois Tyson -- Patrice Pavis -- Ross Brown -- Sally Banes -- Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Antonin Artaud -- Howard Barker -- Rae Smith -- Robert Wilson -- Josef Svoboda.
Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are here brought together in one volume to examine some of the principle forces that have informed the ways in which the visual practice of performance design has been produced and understood.
0203124294 1136344489 1136344527 1136344535 9780203124291 9781136344480 9781136344527 9781136344534
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
Bühnenbild.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--Stagecraft.
Performing Arts.
Scenografi.
Theater.
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
Electronic books.
PN2085 / .T44 2010eb
792.02/5
P.B
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Appearance and reality / The simile of the cave / The draughtsman's contract : how an artist creates an image / The camera obscura and its subject / Meditations on a hobby horse or the roots of artistic form / From Camera Lucida / The most concealed object / Fascination and obsession / Of other spaces / From The production of space / For a hierarchy of means of expression on the stage / A taxonomy of spatial function / 6 axioms for environmental theatre : axiom three / Site-specifics / Dancing in the streets : the sensuous manifold as a concept for designing experience / Grounding / Towards an aesthetic of virtual reality / The house, from cellar to garret, the significance of the hut / Making and contesting time-spaces / Postmodern design / "Oh, to make boardes to speak!" / Stage designs of a single gesture : the early work of Robert Edmond Jones / Foreword to The stage is set / Hope, hopelessness-- presence, absence : scenographic innovation and the poetic spaces of Jo Mielziner, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller / Brecht and stage design : the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer / The diseases of costume / My idea of the theatre / Visual composition, mostly / Defining and reconstructing theatre sound / On performance writing / Docile bodies / Eye and mind / Of language and the flesh / From Adorned in dreams / The actor and the über-marionette / Man and art figure / From Towards a poor theatre / Woman, man, dog, tree : two decades of intimate and monumental bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater / The will to evolve / Glow : an interview with Gideon Obarzanek / The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility : second version / Interaction between text and reader / Semiotics / Limits of analysis, limits of theory and Pavis's questionnaire / Sound design : the scenography of engagement and distraction / Olfactory performances / The naturalistic theatre and the theatre of mood / Theatre and cruelty / The humanist theatre ; The catastrophic theatre ; The cult of accessibility and the theatre of obscurity / Drawing in rehearsal / Speech introducing Freud / From The secret of theatrical space / Bertrand Russell -- Plato -- John Willats -- Jonathan Crary -- Ernst Gombrich -- Roland Barthes -- Herbert Blau -- Susan Bennett -- Michel Foucault -- Henri Lefebvre -- Adolphe Appia -- Gay McAuley -- Richard Schechner -- Nick Kaye -- Scott Palmer and Sita Popat -- Andrew Todd -- Gabriella Giannachi -- Gaston Bachelard -- Doreen Massey -- Arnold Aronson -- Nicholas Till -- Arthur B. Feinsod -- Lee Simonson -- Liam Doona -- Christopher Baugh -- Roland Barthes -- Tadeusz Kantor -- Richard Foreman -- Adrian Curtin -- Tim Etchells -- Michel Foucault -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Thomas Laqueuer -- Elizabeth Wilson -- Edward Gordon Craig -- Oskar Schlemmer -- Jerzy Grotowski -- Gabrielle Cody -- Jane Goodall -- Cristiane Bouger -- Walter Benjamin -- Wolfgang Iser -- Lois Tyson -- Patrice Pavis -- Ross Brown -- Sally Banes -- Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Antonin Artaud -- Howard Barker -- Rae Smith -- Robert Wilson -- Josef Svoboda.
Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are here brought together in one volume to examine some of the principle forces that have informed the ways in which the visual practice of performance design has been produced and understood.
0203124294 1136344489 1136344527 1136344535 9780203124291 9781136344480 9781136344527 9781136344534
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
Bühnenbild.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--Stagecraft.
Performing Arts.
Scenografi.
Theater.
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
Electronic books.
PN2085 / .T44 2010eb
792.02/5