New Stagecraft
新舞台芸術 / 1890s–1930s / Style / Stage Design
The stage reform that dropped painted realism for light, levels and simple volumes shaping space for music and the body. Appia's living light and Craig's moving screens created the very profession of lighting design.
Form made by light / Abstract space of steps and ramps / Painted flats banished / Compositions of simple volumes
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Adolphe Appia / Edward Gordon Craig / Robert Edmond Jones