Theatre and performance design : a reader in scenography /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Collins, Jane, 1951-
Nisbet, Andrew, 1960-
ISBN:9780415432092 (hb : alk. paper)
041543209X (hb : alk. paper)
9780415432108 (pb : alk. paper)
0415432103 (pb : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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