Fifty Key Theatre Designers

Arnold Aronson

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Routledge
21 November 2023

Performance art; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Theatre Studies; European history; History of the Americas

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, costume, lighting, and projection designers since the Renaissance.

Developments of scenic design are traced from the introduction of perspective painting to create illusionistic scenery in Renaissance Italy to the use of digital projection in the twenty-first century. The book also discusses important landmarks in the evolution of costume and lighting design, as well as the introduction of film and video technology to stage design. A broad range of work is explored, including opera, dance, Broadway and West End commercial theatre, avant-garde performance, and even Olympic spectacles. Each chapter features one designer, including basic biographical information and a discussion of that artist’s style, aesthetics, and contributions. Designers covered include Sebastiano Serlio, Ferdinando Bibiena, Richard Wagner, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon Craig, amongst many other notable individuals. Each chapter also includes references to other significant designers with similar aesthetics or who made similarly important contributions to the development of that aspect of scenography.

This book is ideal for undergraduates and graduates of scenography, theatrical design, and theatre history.

By: Arnold Aronson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780367229993
ISBN 10: 0367229994
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 21 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Sebastiano Serlio (1475–1554[?]) 2. Inigo Jones (1573–1652) 3. Giacomo Torelli (1608–1678) 4. Ferdinando Bibiena (1657–1743) 5. Philippe-Jacques De Loutherbourg (1740–1812) 6. Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri (1782–1868) 7. Richard Wagner (1813–1883) 8. André Antoine (1858–1943) 9. Viktor Simov (1858–1935) 10. Adolphe Appia (1862–1928) 11. Léon Bakst (1866–1924) and Alexandre Benois (1870–1960) 12. Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966) 13. Joseph Urban (1872–1933) 14. Alexandra Exter (1882–1949) 15. Emil Pirchan (1884–1957) 16. Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964) 17. Robert Edmond Jones (1887–1954) 18. Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) 19. Liubov Popova (1889–1924) 20. Traugott Müller (1895–1944) 21. Caspar Neher (1897–1962) 22. Boris Aronson (1898–1980) 23. Nikolai Okhlopkov (1900–1967) 24. Jo Mielziner (1901–1976) 25. Irene Sharaff (1910–1993) 26. Jean Rosenthal (1912–1969) 27. Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914–2003) 28. Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) 29. Jocelyn Herbert (1917–2003) 30 Wieland Wagner (1917–1966) 31. Josef Svoboda (1920–2002) 32. Ralph Koltai (1924–2018) 33. John Bury (1925–2000) 34. Ming Cho Lee (1930–2020) 35. Sally Jacobs (1932–2020) 36. David Borovsky (1934–2006) 37. Jerzy Gurawski (1935–2022) 38. Jennifer Tipton (1937–) 39. Robert Wilson (1941–) 40. Hélio Eichbauer (1941–2018) 41. Richard Peduzzi (1943–) 42. William Dudley (1947–) 43. Jim Clayburgh (1949–) 44. Wendall K. Harrington (1950–) 45. Anna Viebrock (1951–) 46. Liu Xinglin (1953–) 47. George Tsypin (1954–) 48. William Kentridge (1955–) 49. Bert Neumann (1960–2015) 50. Franc Aleu (1966–)

Arnold Aronson is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books on design including Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Scenography and was a founding co-editor of the journal Theatre and Performance Design. He has a long history with the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and served as General Commissioner in 2007.