174 pages illustrations (part color) diagrs., plans 32 cm
Type:
Iconographie
Date:
1950
Contents:
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
