Main entry:

Simonson, Lee, 1888-1967, author.

Title & Author:

The art of scenic design : a pictorial analysis of stage setting and its relation to theatrical production / by Lee Simonson.

Publication:

New York : Harper & Brothers, [1950]
©1950

Description:

174 pages : illustrations (some color) diagrams, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Pictures and perspectives -- The technique of illusion -- Rome revived -- Pediments, plaster, and paint -- The grooves of change -- Gods and machines -- Pulleys, slots, and windlass -- The focus of space -- The prince and the proscenium -- Dwindling illusion -- The dynamic theater: I -- Light : Adolphe Appia's Tristan and Isolde -- The dynamic theater: II -- The pulse of interpretation -- The dominant director -- Theory and structure -- Ways and means -- Pigment and illumination -- Nerve center -- Recurrent forms and new directions -- Productions and theaters past and present: 1545-1949 -- Twenty productions designed by the author: 1919-1948 -- More ways than one : six interpretations of Hamlet.
Also issued online.

Subject:

Theaters Stage-setting and scenery.
Teatro (Cenografia)
mise en scène théâtre opéra iconographie.
mise en scène théâtre opéra.
Performing Arts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 79860
Call No.: IDX; ID:85-B10253
Status: Available