Materials and Craft of the Scenic Model - Softcover

Payne, Darwin Reid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809307839 ISBN 13: 9780809307838

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976

Synopsis

This is the first full-length textbook devoted totally to the craft and materials involved in preparing one of the stage designer's most important presentations --the scenic model. Though scenic models are not a new development in the theatre--Leonardo da Vinci used them for the spectacles he was commissioned to design--it has been only recently that they have all but superseded scenic sketches, prima-rily because the three-dimensional model more closely resembles the image realized on the actual stage. Materials and Craft of the Scenic Model thus fills a distinct and major need for teaching the art and craftsmanship a designer must have to make scenic models. Through diagrams, sketches, and models, along with explications of the essential tools and materials re-quired, Payne defines and delineates the precise step-by-step procedures of sce-nic-model making: the basic prepara-tions of construction, the process of making the model, and the experimen-tal aspects of model making. Because designers must sometimes show their work by way of photographs, the author has included instructions on how a scenic model should be photographed.

About this title

About the Author

Darwin Reid Payne is Associate Pro-fessor of Theatre and Designer for the University Theatre, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the au-thor of Design for the Stage: First Steps.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809307839
• ISBN 13: 9780809307838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136