Architect of Dreams : The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban,9781884919084

Architect of Dreams : The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban

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ISBN13: 9781884919084
ISBN10: 1884919081
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Washington Pr
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
David Rosand
Preface ix
Jean Ashton
Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban
1(38)
Arnold Aronson
Assimilation and Eclecticism: The Architecture of Joseph Urban
39(9)
Derek E. Ostergard
Joseph Urban and the Birth of American Film Design
48(8)
Matthew Wilson Smith
The Joseph Urban Collection: An Overview
56(3)
Gwynedd Cannan
Checklist of the Exhibition 59

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