Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States

by Margaret A. Mitchel and Oscar Gross Brockett

Book Overview

Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are relatively few books on the subject, and almost none for a general audience that combine expansive scholarship with lavish design. Making the Scene offers an unprecedented survey of the evolving context, theory, and practice of scene design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world's best-known authority on the subject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722737
• ISBN13: 9780292722736
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 6.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 10.2" x 12.2"