Scenographic Design Drawing: Performative Drawing in an Expanded Field

Scenographic design drawings visualize the images in the designers' minds early in the design process, making them a unique performative and 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, addressing a critical research gap and showing how the scenographic design drawing continues to be a principal site of innovation, subjectivity, originality, and authorship in theatre and live performance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 14 January 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Scenographic design drawings for theatre and live performance are a unique and essential part of the 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. These drawings visualize the images in the designers' minds eye early in the design process and are the initial design tool in the creative engagement with theatre, opera, dance, and non-text-based performance. 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.

Weight: 736g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350168534