Scenographic Imagination / Edition 3

by Darwin Reid Payne, Teresa White

Overview

This is a revised, expanded version of Payne’s Design for the Stage: First Steps, the book Choice characterized as “An excellent text,” “a re­freshingly innovative approach to theatrical design with an artistic, theatrical, and histor­ical focus rather than the technical craft ori­entation found in most textbooks.”

Payne seeks to instill in beginning scenographers a basic core of knowledge: theater history and the development of drama; art history and an understanding of periods and styles of architecture, painting, sculp­ture, furnishing, and costume; and the prin­ciples, techniques, and materials in pictorial and three-dimensional design. He has incorporated into his text many suggestions for

outside readings, quoting passages and even entire chapters from important works. He stresses research, arguing that the scenogra­pher cannot grow without knowledge of the literature of his own and related arts.

John Kavelin, in Theatre Crafts, recom­mended Design for the Stage to any student, teacher, or practitioner of design, calling it a “literate, well-organized book.” The Sce­nographic Imagination is a bigger, deeper book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780809318513
Publisher:	Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date:	04/28/1993
Edition description:	3rd Edition
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	103,687
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Darwin Reid Payne is Professor of Theater and Chairman of the Department at South­ern Illinois University Carbondale.

Editorial Reviews

Payne (theater, Wake Forest U.) here revises his standard monograph (2d ed., 1981). Major change is the use of the computer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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