Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics

ISBN-13: 9780230115071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str.

Elizabeth Christin Essin

Opis

Christin Essin documents theatre's backstage history through the cultural roles played by designers during the modern development of their profession. Featuring work by Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson, Aline Bernstein, Norman Bel Geddes, Mordecai Gorelik

Recenzje

"The originality of this lucid study by Essin is how she places that aesthetic movement in a broader cultural context . . . Essin's research is thorough, her writing is engaging, and her insights are rewarding. Summing Up: Recommended. For all academic, general, and professional/practitioner audiences." - CHOICE

Spis treści

Introduction: Design as Cultural History 1. The Designer as Author 2. The Designer as Cultural Critic 3. The Designer as Activist 4. The Designer as Entrepreneur 5. The Designer as Global Cartographer

O autorze

Christin Essin is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Theatre History at Vanderbilt University, USA.