The Scenographic Imagination - Softcover

Darwin Reid Payne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809310104 ISBN 13: 9780809310104

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0809310104
• ISBN 13: 9780809310104
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320