Author: Olga TaxidouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edward Gordon Craig and the Periodical as Performance
Author: Olga TaxidouThe Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig
Author: Olga TaxidouPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134424507
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous world-wide as an actor, manager, director, playwright, designer, and most importantly an author and theorist, whose books were translated into German, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian, and Danish. Although an essential parallel to the European avant-garde, Craig was often read as "exceptional" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears as Craig's main cosmopolitan project but also at times functions as a surrogate stage for his experiments in theater practice. The book has a comprehensive chronology, extensive notes and a bibliography making it an essential text for undergraduates, postgraduates, actors, theatre professionals, designers, directors, researchers and writers in the fields of theatre studies (especially theater set and lighting) and theater history.
Edward Gordon Craig and the Periodical as Performance
Author: Olga TaxidouThe Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig
Author: Olga TaxidouPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134424574
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous world-wide as an actor, manager, director, playwright, designer, and most importantly an author and theorist, whose books were translated into German, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian, and Danish. Although an essential parallel to the European avant-garde, Craig was often read as "exceptional" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears as Craig's main cosmopolitan project but also at times functions as a surrogate stage for his experiments in theater practice. The book has a comprehensive chronology, extensive notes and a bibliography making it an essential text for undergraduates, postgraduates, actors, theatre professionals, designers, directors, researchers and writers in the fields of theatre studies (especially theater set and lighting) and theater history.
The Mask
Author: Olga TaxidouPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9789057550454
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book places the work of Edward Gordon Craig within the context of the European avant-garde and the broader framework of performance and Modernity. Through a detailed study of the journal The Mask Craig is contextualised and theorised in terms of his contemporaries, his historical precedents and in terms of the legacy he has left for succeeding generations of theatre experimenters. Since Craig was often preoccupied with creating a 'theory' of performance rather than working on specific productions, The Mask provided him with a metaphorical and physical stage for the manifesto-like character of his writings. It also helps shed light on some of the contradictory aspects of Craigian thought.
Beyond Scenography
Author: Rachel HannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429950985
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging). With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of 'the scenic' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics. Beyond Scenography offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice.
Woodcuts and Some Words
Author: Edward Gordon CraigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wood-engravers
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Collection of the author's woodcuts made between 1898 and 1923 along with information about himself and tips for woodcutters.
On the Art of the Theatre
Author: Edward Gordon CraigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Scene
Author: Edward Gordon CraigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theaters
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms
Author: Joana Cunha LealPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003833292
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Taking into account politics, history, and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic and literary milieus with each other and with the Parisian circles. Chapters also examine the patterns and paradoxes associated with the manifestations of primitivism, including their local implications and cosmopolitan drive. This book opens up and deepens the discussion of the ties that Spain and Portugal maintained with their imperial pasts, which extended into European twentieth-century colonialism, as well as the nationalist and folk aesthetics promoted by the cultural industry of Iberian dictatorships. The book significantly rethinks long-established ideas about modern art and the production of primitivist imagery. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Iberian studies, Latin American studies, colonialism, and modernism. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.