Arnold Aronson, a theatre historian and professor of theatre at Columbia University in New York City, writes on scenography as well as modern and contemporary theatre. Books include Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design; The Disappearing Stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial; Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography; American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History; American Set Design and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography. He is a former editor of Theatre Design & Technology and is currently co-editor of the journal Theatre and Performance Design. He has a long history with the Prague Quadrennial, the international exhibition of theatre and performance design and architecture, serving as President of the Jury in 1991 and 1999, curator of the US exhibit in 1995 and General Commissioner in 2007.

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• IntroductionARNOLD ARONSONPart I: Scenographic Elements1. Stage and Audience: Constructing Relations and OpportunitiesBETH WEINSTEIN2. Scenery THEA BREJZEK3. Costume MICHELLE LIU CARRIGER4. Light and ProjectionSCOTT PALMER5. Sound (design)DAVID ROESNER6. Scenography and the Senses: Engaging the tactile, olfactory, and gustatory STEPHEN DI BENEDETTOPart II: Scenographic Theory and Criticism7. Theatrical Languages: The Scenographic Turn and the Linguistic Turn AUSTIN E. QUIGLEY8. Seeing scenography: Scopic Regimes and the Body of the Spectator JOSLIN MCKINNEY9. Absolute, Abstract and Abject: Learning from the Event-Space of the Historical Avant-GardeDORITA M. HANNAH10. "What is happening": Notes on the Scenographic Impulse in Modern and Contemporary Art KEVIN LOTERY11. Scenography Beyond Theatre: Designing POLIN The Museum of the History of Polish JewsARNAUD DECHELLE12. Participation, Interaction, Atmosphere, Projection: New Forms of Technological Agency and Behavior in Recent Scenographic PracticeCHRIS SALTERPart III: History and PracticeArchitecture as Design13. Scenography in Greece and Rome: the first thousand years C.W. MARSHALL14. Imagining the Sanskrit StageAMANDA CULP15. Tudor and Stuart ScenographyANDREW GURR16. Playing with materials: performing effect on the indoor Jacobean stage. JANE COLLINS17. Early Modern Theatres of France and Spain, 1486 -1789FRANKLIN J. HILDY18. The Open-Stage MovementDENNIS KENNEDYSpatial and Environmental Design19. Medieval Scenography: Places, Scaffolds, and Iconography GORDON KIPLING20. Storyteller as Time-traveler in Mohammed ben-Abdallah’s Song of the Pharaoh: Multimedia Avant-Garde Theatre in Ghana JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY21. Environmental Theatre: Selected Asian Models KATHY FOLEY22. The City as Theatre MARVIN CARLSON23. Site Specific Theatre MIKE PEARSON24. Free reign? Designing the Spectator in Immersive Theatre W.B. WORTHEN Pictorial and Illusionistic Design25. The Italianate stage including the development of the proscenium, perspective, and moveable scenery.EVAN BAKER26. Restoration and 18th century England DAVID KORNHABER27. 18th-century France PANNILL CAMP28. Melodrama, Naturalism, and the box set AMY HOLZAPFELSymbolic and Emblematic Design29. Richard Wagner, Georg Fuchs, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon CraigCHRISTOPHER BAUGH30. Russian Stage Design and Theatrical Avant-GardeJULIA LISTENGARTEN31. Expressionism And The Epic Theater In Early Twentieth-Century German Stage Design: The Expressionist EthosMEL GORDON32. Bertolt Brecht and Scenographic DialogueCHRISTOPHER BAUGH33. New Stagecraft DAVID BISAHA34. Bauhaus ScenographyMELISSA TRIMINGHAMModern and Contemporary Design35. Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin EraAMY SKINNER 36. Transformation of Forms: Polish Scenography After 1950DOMINIKA ŁARIONOV37. Modern and Contemporary Czech Theatre Design: Toward Dramatic Spaces of FreedomBARBORA PRIHODOVA38. Worlds of German Design in the 21st Century MATT CORNISH39. Modern British Theatre Design: UK Design for Performance Since 1975 KATE BURNETT40. Latin American ScenographyLUIZ SA AND LIDIA KOSOVSKI41. Design in the United States and CanadaARNOLD ARONSON42. Spatial Oscillations in the American Avant-Garde STEPHEN BOTTOMS43. Contemporary Chinese Opera Design: The Pursuit of Cultural AwarenessYI TIANFU 44. Postmodern Design for OperaEWA KARA

Arnold Aronson, a theatre historian and professor of theatre at Columbia University in New York City, writes on scenography as well as modern and contemporary theatre. Books include Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design; The Disappearing Stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial; Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography; American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History; American Set Design and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography. He is a former editor of Theatre Design & Technology and is currently co-editor of the journal Theatre and Performance Design. He has a long history with the Prague Quadrennial, the international exhibition of theatre and performance design and architecture, serving as President of the Jury in 1991 and 1999, curator of the US exhibit in 1995 and General Commissioner in 2007.

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• IntroductionARNOLD ARONSONPart I: Scenographic Elements1. Stage and Audience: Constructing Relations and OpportunitiesBETH WEINSTEIN2. Scenery THEA BREJZEK3. Costume MICHELLE LIU CARRIGER4. Light and ProjectionSCOTT PALMER5. Sound (design)DAVID ROESNER6. Scenography and the Senses: Engaging the tactile, olfactory, and gustatory STEPHEN DI BENEDETTOPart II: Scenographic Theory and Criticism7. Theatrical Languages: The Scenographic Turn and the Linguistic Turn AUSTIN E. QUIGLEY8. Seeing scenography: Scopic Regimes and the Body of the Spectator JOSLIN MCKINNEY9. Absolute, Abstract and Abject: Learning from the Event-Space of the Historical Avant-GardeDORITA M. HANNAH10. "What is happening": Notes on the Scenographic Impulse in Modern and Contemporary Art KEVIN LOTERY11. Scenography Beyond Theatre: Designing POLIN The Museum of the History of Polish JewsARNAUD DECHELLE12. Participation, Interaction, Atmosphere, Projection: New Forms of Technological Agency and Behavior in Recent Scenographic PracticeCHRIS SALTERPart III: History and PracticeArchitecture as Design13. Scenography in Greece and Rome: the first thousand years C.W. MARSHALL14. Imagining the Sanskrit StageAMANDA CULP15. Tudor and Stuart ScenographyANDREW GURR16. Playing with materials: performing effect on the indoor Jacobean stage. JANE COLLINS17. Early Modern Theatres of France and Spain, 1486 -1789FRANKLIN J. HILDY18. The Open-Stage MovementDENNIS KENNEDYSpatial and Environmental Design19. Medieval Scenography: Places, Scaffolds, and Iconography GORDON KIPLING20. Storyteller as Time-traveler in Mohammed ben-Abdallah’s Song of the Pharaoh: Multimedia Avant-Garde Theatre in Ghana JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY21. Environmental Theatre: Selected Asian Models KATHY FOLEY22. The City as Theatre MARVIN CARLSON23. Site Specific Theatre MIKE PEARSON24. Free reign? Designing the Spectator in Immersive Theatre W.B. WORTHEN Pictorial and Illusionistic Design25. The Italianate stage including the development of the proscenium, perspective, and moveable scenery.EVAN BAKER26. Restoration and 18th century England DAVID KORNHABER27. 18th-century France PANNILL CAMP28. Melodrama, Naturalism, and the box set AMY HOLZAPFELSymbolic and Emblematic Design29. Richard Wagner, Georg Fuchs, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon CraigCHRISTOPHER BAUGH30. Russian Stage Design and Theatrical Avant-GardeJULIA LISTENGARTEN31. Expressionism And The Epic Theater In Early Twentieth-Century German Stage Design: The Expressionist EthosMEL GORDON32. Bertolt Brecht and Scenographic DialogueCHRISTOPHER BAUGH33. New Stagecraft DAVID BISAHA34. Bauhaus ScenographyMELISSA TRIMINGHAMModern and Contemporary Design35. Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin EraAMY SKINNER 36. Transformation of Forms: Polish Scenography After 1950DOMINIKA ŁARIONOV37. Modern and Contemporary Czech Theatre Design: Toward Dramatic Spaces of FreedomBARBORA PRIHODOVA38. Worlds of German Design in the 21st Century MATT CORNISH39. Modern British Theatre Design: UK Design for Performance Since 1975 KATE BURNETT40. Latin American ScenographyLUIZ SA AND LIDIA KOSOVSKI41. Design in the United States and CanadaARNOLD ARONSON42. Spatial Oscillations in the American Avant-Garde STEPHEN BOTTOMS43. Contemporary Chinese Opera Design: The Pursuit of Cultural AwarenessYI TIANFU 44. Postmodern Design for OperaEWA KARA