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Russian Theory in the American Theater
Simonson, Lee | June 12, 1929 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Boris Aronson et l' Art du Theéâtre," by Waldemar George. Scenic design has been talked of for ten years as a new art and generally accepted as such. Nevertheless the pictorial methods used in modern stage settings are rarely new. Almost invariably their air of novelty results from transferring within the frame of the stage aesthetic points of view already accepted within the picture frame: the flat decorative brilliance of posters, the tonalities of Whistler's nocturnes, the chiaroscuro of Daumier, or the selective and suggestive realism of Degas's pastels and Lautrec's water-colors.

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BORIS Aronson et l' Art du Theatre (Book); WALDEMAR George, 1893-; THEATERS -- Stage-setting & scenery; PROJECTED scenery; THEATER; PERFORMING arts
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