Theatre and performance design : a reader in scenography /
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. |
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Description: | xxix, 400 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery. Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8380343 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Looking: the experience of seeing
- 1. Appearance and reality
- 2. The simile of the cave
- 3. The draughtsman's contract: how an artist creates an image
- 4. The camera obscura and its subject
- 5. Meditations on a hobby horse or the roots of artistic form
- 6. From Camera Lucida
- 7. The most concealed object
- 8. Fascination and obsession
- Part II. Space and place
- 9. Of other spaces
- 10. From The Production of Space
- 11. For a hierarchy of means of expression on the stage
- 12. A taxonomy of spatial function
- 13. 6 axioms for environmental theatre: axiom three
- 14. Site-specifics
- 15. Dancing in the streets: the sensuous manifold as a concept for designing experience
- 16. Grounding
- 17. Towards an aesthetic of virtual reality
- 18. The house. From cellar to garret. The significance of the hut
- 19. Making and contesting time-spaces
- Part III. The designer: the scenographic
- 20. Postmodern design 145
- 21. "Oh, to make boardes to speak!"
- 22. Stage designs of a single gesture: the early work of Robert Edmond Jones
- 23. Foreword to The Stage is Set
- 24. Hope, hopelessness / presence, absence: scenographic innovation and the poetic spaces of Jo Mielziner
- 25. Brecht and stage design: the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer
- 26. The diseases of costume
- 27. My idea of the theatre
- 28. Visual composition, mostly
- 29. Defining and reconstructing theatre sound
- 30. On performance writing
- Part IV. Bodies in space 231
- 31. Docile bodies
- 32. Eye and mind
- 33. Of language and the flesh
- 34. From Adorned in Dreams
- 35. The actor and the über-marionette
- 36. Man and art figure
- 37. From Towards a Poor Theatre
- 38. Woman, man, dog, tree: two decades of intimate and monumental bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater
- 39. The will to evolve
- 40. Glow: an interview with Gideon Obarzanek
- Part V. Making meaning
- 41. The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility: second version
- 42. Interaction between text and reader
- 43. Semiotics
- 44. Limits of analysis, limits of theory and Pavis's questionnaire
- 45. Sound design: the scenography of engagement and distraction
- 46. Olfactory performances
- 47. The naturalistic theatre and the Theatre of Mood
- 48. Theatre and cruelty
- 49. The humanist theatre/The catastrophic theatre and The cult of accessibility and the Theatre of Obscurity
- 50. Drawing in rehearsal
- 51. Speech introducing Freud
- 52. From The Secret of Theatrical Space