Sources of the Czech design legacy / Joseph Brandesky -- Trends in twentieth-century Czech theatre design / Věra Ptáčková -- Czech scenography in America / Dennis P. Christilles -- Modernism to imagism / Delbert Unruh -- Authority, playfulness, metaphor, and irony / Marie Zdeňková -- Biographies of designers / Helena Albertová and Joseph Brandesky
Summary
This compilation of essays and images reveals an essential and valuable component of Czech contributions to the world of modern theatre heretofore largely unseen outside the country itself. Featuring the craft of twenty-seven of the best stage and costume designers of the twentieth century, Brandesky supplies ample evidence of their consistently high quality and dynamic creativity, survival skills for a people whose national identity had been dismantled during many years of occupation and repression
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-97)
Notes
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