@article{347650,
      author = {Brockett, Oscar G. and Mitchell, Margaret, and Hardberger,  Linda.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/347650},
      title = {Making the scene : a history of stage design and  technology in Europe and the United States /},
      publisher = {Tobin Theatre Arts Fund,},
      abstract = {Theatrical scene design is one of the world's 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. The work 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 and enhanced by  three hundred full-color illustrations. Individual chapters  focus on Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe (including  liturgical drama, street pageants, festival outdoor drama,  Spanish religious drama, and royal entries), the Italian  Renaissance, eighteenth-century Europe, classicism to  romanticism, realism and naturalism, modernism, and  contemporary scene design. Authors discuss everything from  the effects of social status on theater design to the sea  changes between classicism, romanticism, and naturalism and  the influence of perspective-based techniques, from the  classical deus ex machina and special effects in coliseums,  to medieval roving stage wagons and the floating ships of  the Renaissance, to the computerized practices of today's  theaters. Each historical period also includes a discussion  of the audience that attended these productions. Such  ingenious techniques, interwoven with the sweeping beauty  of scene design through the ages, combine with Oscar G.  Brockett and Margaret Mitchell's keen scholarship to create  a book as compelling as the art it showcases.},
      recid = {347650},
      pages = {xi, 365 p. :},
      address = {San Antonio, Tex. :},
      year = {2010},
}