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Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics
By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
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Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics
By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
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Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics

Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics

by E. Essin
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics

Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics

by E. Essin

Overview

By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137496645
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 04/22/2015
Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christin Essin is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Theatre History at Vanderbilt University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Design as Cultural History 1. The Designer as Author 2. The Designer as Cultural Critic 3. The Designer as Activist 4. The Designer as Entrepreneur 5. The Designer as Global Cartographer

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"Stage Designers in Early Twentieth Century America offers a bounty of new insights into the lives and artistry of the scenic designers who conceptualized, practiced, and promulgated the New Stagecraft. Christin Essin approaches their innovative work in the best possible way: within broader developments of material culture across the first half of the twentieth century. Discoursing with histories of the labor movement, mass production, consumerism, and imperialism, Essin elucidates the social complexities of this vital development in American theatre history." - James Peck, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre, Muhlenberg College, USA, and editor, Theatre Topics

"Christin Essin offers a new and valuable perspective on evolution of the designer's role in the modern American theatre. Adventurously conceived and meticulously researched, Essin's study draws on a wide range of archival sources to provide a much-needed historicization of the New Stagecraft movement. By emphasizing the dual status of designers as both artists and working professionals, the book prompts fresh consideration of legendary figures such as Robert Edmond Jones and Jo Mielziner while recognizing the contributions of lesser-known artists such as Aline Bernstein and Howard Bay. It should be required reading in any survey of American theatre history."- Henry Bial, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and American Studies, University of Kansas, USA

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