Scenographic Design Drawing: Performative Drawing in an Expanded Field

Sue Field

ISBN 10: 135016853X / ISBN 13: 9781350168534

Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2021-01-14, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scenographic Design Drawing: Performative Drawing in an Expanded Field
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2021-01-14
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 135016853X
• ISBN 13: 9781350168534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This enlightening study explores the set design drawings for theatre and live performance, highlighting their unique qualities within the greater arena of drawing practice and theory. The latest volume in the Drawing In series, Scenographic Design Drawing encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of drawing with the inclusion of illustrations throughout.

Scenographic design drawings visualize the images in the designer's 'mind's eye' early in the design process. They are the initial design tool in the creative engagement with theatre, opera, dance, and non-text-based performance. It is, in particular, this body of drawings that is unique as both a performative and a theatrical representation of multiple worlds within the 'stage space'. Sue Field illuminates this illustration process and identifies how these drawings have functioned and developed over time.

Scenographic Design Drawing serves to satisfy an emerging global curiosity and a thirst for new knowledge and understanding in relation to the drawings executed by the historical and contemporary scenographer. This work addresses a critical research gap and shows how the scenographic design drawing continues to be a principal site of innovation, subjectivity, originality and authorship in theatre and live performance.

About the Authors

Sue Field is a researcher at UNSW Art and Design, Australia, and a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Sue has an extensive history of working in the performing arts industry as a production designer, academic, educator and author. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from UNSW, Australia in 2019. She has written scholarly papers for journals, national and international conferences, published academic book chapters, and is the author of Scenographic Design Drawing (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History & Theory at Loughborough University, UK.