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"The originality of this lucid study by Essin is how she places that aesthetic movement in a broader cultural context . . . Essin's research is thorough, her writing is engaging, and her insights are rewarding. Summing Up: Recommended. For all academic, general, and professional/practitioner audiences." - CHOICE
"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, USAAbout the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
Book Subtitle: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics
Authors: Christin Essin
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137108395
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11507-1Published: 05 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49664-5Published: 22 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-10839-5Published: 23 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 264
Topics: Theatre History, History of the Americas, Cultural History, Performing Arts, US History, Modern History