Product Description: Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre. The authors present many new instances of the interaction between the arts, providing a theoretical and historiographical context for these interactions...read more

Product Description: In November 2006, the artist Paul Chan visited New Orleans, in particular those parts of the city devastated by Katrina. "Friends said the city now looks like the backdrop for a bleak science-fiction movie. (...) I realized it didn't look like a movie set, but the stage for a play I have seen many times...read more

Product Description: Red Breathing represents reclusive American artist Daniel Brush's 13-year engagement with the Woman plays of Noh theater, resulting in 117 large-scale drawings. All drawings are reproduced in sequence.

Product Description: This first monograph presents a collection of intaglio prints spanning the past seven years and forming the foundation of Griebel's young career as a visual artist. The work finds its genesis in childhood stories, legends and the relationship between narrative and the visual image...read more

Product Description: This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy...read more

Product Description: Classical Greek theatre survives not only in plays that we still read and perform, but also in artistic images. Depictions of performances, actors, and their masks were frequent in classical times and continued to appear even beyond the fifth and sixth centuries A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.

Examines old art prints from Japan which depict theatrical and other scenes, and discusses the culture of the era that produced them

Examines old art prints from Japan which depict theatrical and other scenes, and discusses the culture of the era that produced them