Architect of dreams : the theatrical vision of Joseph Urban / by Arnold Aronson ; with essays by Derek E. Ostergard and Matthew Wilson Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aronson, Arnold.

Contributor:

Ostergard, Derek E.

Smith, Matthew Wilson.

Wallach Art Gallery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933--Exhibitions.

Urban, Joseph.

Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933.

Theater architecture--United States--Exhibitions.

Theater architecture.

Art nouveau (Architecture).

Architecture--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Architecture.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

x, 78 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, [2000]

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.

Notes:

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Architect of dreams : the theatrical vision of Joseph Urban, held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in New York, Oct. 10-Dec. 16, 2000.

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1884919081

OCLC:

45742225