Modern Art and the Theatre: Being Notes on Certain Approaches to a New Art of the Stage, With Special Reference to Parallel Developments in Painting, Sculpture and the Other Arts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cheney, Sheldon

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ISBN 10: 1330795393 ISBN 13: 9781330795392

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Modern Art and the Theatre: Being Notes on Certain Approaches to a New Art of the Stage, With Special Reference to Parallel Developments in Painting, Sculpture and the Other Arts

Most of the voluminous writing about the new art of the theatre is concerned with matters that ought now to be behind us. Twenty years ago it was important, in thelight of contemmrary practice, that some artist discover unity as applied to stage production. Even five years ago the ways of achieving a synthesis of the component parts of stage art seemed the most pressing theatrical prob lem. There has been legitimate excitement, too, over the discovery that a stage setting should be of a piece with the play and the acting: that there should be in charge an artist-director capable of visualizing the production as one harmonious whole: that the actor should subordinate his personality under the demands of dramatist and director: that modern inventions in lighting have opened new pos sibilities of re-enforcing theatrically the dramatist's intent.

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Excerpt from Modern Art and the Theatre: Being Notes on Certain Approaches to a New Art of the Stage, With Special Reference to Parallel Developments in Painting, Sculpture and the Other Arts

What becomes clearest, here at the beginning of what many of us believe to be a new slope, is this: the struggle is to free the theatre quite as completely as painting and sculpture from the centuries-old obsession with representation and imitation, to free it for creative expression; to find ways of escape from the sphere of sentiment, anecdote, plot-weaving and photography, into a sphere where beauty of form is locked with the release of the spirit. But before even starting on the search for means to this freedom, in order to clear the way, we must understand one thing as fundamental: there are expressive forms which pertain particularly and peculiarly to the theatre, and we can come at these only from a thorough consideration, and love, of the theatre as such. Certainly these forms are not likely to be discovered by casual invaders who think in terms of Cubist painting, or of free verse, or of a theory of gesture-and-music, but only by people who think in terms of the theatre, who create from visions of the theatre: stage and auditorium, movement and sound, light, color, humanity, acting, soul related to soul.

Most of the voluminous writing about "the new art of the theatre" is concerned with matters that ought new to be behind us.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330795393
• ISBN 13: 9781330795392
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32