
Architect of Dreams
The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban
Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery,U.S. (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 10. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
78 pages
978-1-884919-08-4 (ISBN)
Description
Previous research on Joseph Urban (1872-1933) has focused on his architectural career; yet after moving from Vienna to the U.S. in 1912, he devoted much of his energies to the stage, especially productions for the Metropolitan Opera and the Ziegfeld Follies. A seminal figure in the history of American theater, he introduced to the U.S. the sophistication of European developments in stage design, experiments with lighting, and painterly effects which paralleled developments in modernist literature, painting, and dance.
Architect of Dreams documents more than 100 finely rendered watercolors, photographs, and three-dimensional stage models. Arnold Aronson (professor of theatre arts at Columbia University) contributes a major essay. In other essays, Derek E. Ostergard contextualizes Urban's architecture, and Matthew Wilson Smith examines Urban's work in film.
Architect of Dreams documents more than 100 finely rendered watercolors, photographs, and three-dimensional stage models. Arnold Aronson (professor of theatre arts at Columbia University) contributes a major essay. In other essays, Derek E. Ostergard contextualizes Urban's architecture, and Matthew Wilson Smith examines Urban's work in film.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
University of Washington Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
50 color and 51 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 273 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-884919-08-4 (9781884919084)
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