Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers
Language: English
Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1992
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Newly revised and updated, The Costume Designer's Handbook is now more comprehensive than ever and is the backbone of any costume designer's library since its original publication in 1983. Features of this new edition include: a foreword by Arvin Brown, Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre guidance on how to read and analyze a play plans for establishing a costume plot insights into working with directors and other designers resources for doing historical research a discussion of the properties of color sketching, drawing, and drafting techniques an 8-page color insert 150 black-and-white photos, drawings, and charts a complete, up-to-date reference section.
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- Title
- Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers
- Author
- Elizabeth Covey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0435086073
- ISBN 13
- 9780435086077
Newly revised and updated, The Costume Designer's Handbook is now more comprehensive than ever and is the backbone of any costume designer's library since its original publication in 1983. Features of this new edition include:
- a foreword by Arvin Brown, Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre
- guidance on how to read and analyze a play
- plans for establishing a costume plot
- insights into working with directors and other designers
- resources for doing historical research
- a discussion of the properties of color
- sketching, drawing, and drafting techniques
- an 8-page color insert
- 150 black-and-white photos, drawings, and charts
- a complete, up-to-date reference section
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About the Author
Rosemary Ingham is a costume designer and writer. Her design work has been seen at regional theatres across the country for more than three decades.
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