Scenography : an Indian perspective / Satyabrata Rout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rout, Satyabrata, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten International Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--India.

Theaters.

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.

India.

Physical Description:

576 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Niyogi Books, 2022.

Summary:

"Scenography is the art of 'writing the stage space'--a visual journey of unmaking and remaking the text on a theatre space, a language of the spectatorial senses. However, this dialect of space and props, though prevalent in the West from the early days of the Greek plays, unfortunately has never been groomed and appropriated in the long theatre tradition of the Orient--until a bunch of new practitioners and scholars decided to explore the field of design and change the narrative of space in recent times. Yet with hardly any documentation available in the backdrop of indigenous theatre, there was a need of a practical treatise for quite a long tim nearths this astonishing yet silent contribution of 'stage' design in Indian theatres throughout the ages and the comparatively recent appropriation of it"-- Dust jacket flap.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.

ISBN:

9789391125295

9391125298

OCLC:

1292974889