Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States by Brockett, Oscar G.
Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States by Brockett, Oscar G.

Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States

Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are...
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Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States by Brockett, Oscar G.

Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States

$304.83
Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States by Brockett, Oscar G.

Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States

$304.83
Author: Oscar G. Brockett
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Theatrical scene design is one of the 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. Making the Scene 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 of the book 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. Making the Scene's authors review everything from the effects of social status on theatre design to the sea changes between Classicism, Romanticism, and Naturalism and the influence of perspective-based thought. Particularly intriguing is their rediscovery of lost tricks and 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 theatres. Such ingenious techniques, interwoven with the sweeping beauty of scene design through the ages, combine with the keen scholarship of Oscar Brockett and Margaret Mitchell to create a book as involving as the art it showcases.



Author: Oscar G. Brockett, Margaret A. Mitchell, Linda Hardberger
Publisher: Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 377
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 6.05lbs
Size: 12.20h x 10.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780292722736


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2010 pg. 84
Choice 07/01/2010

About the Author
OSCAR G. BROCKETT is the author of History of the Theatre, which has been the standard work in its field for three decades, as well as World Drama, Perspectives on Contemporary Theatre, A Century of Innovation, and The Essential Theatre.MARGARET A. MITC
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