Fifty Key Theatre Designers

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.

List of contents

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–)

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Arnold Aronson, Aronson Arnold
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2023
• EAN: 9780367229993
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22999-3
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, General & world history, Theatre Studies, Industrial / commercial art & design, Social and cultural history, General and world history, History of the Americas, Performance Art, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration