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Pictorial illusionism : the theatre of Steele MacKaye /
Drawing together a wealth of primary sources, J.A. Sokalski examines the aims, inventions, and methods of the pictorial style that defined MacKaye's art. Sokalski shows how MacKaye's famous Madison Square Theatre, which featured a double stage reminiscent of an elevator, created whirling p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Drawing together a wealth of primary sources, J.A. Sokalski examines the aims, inventions, and methods of the pictorial style that defined MacKaye's art. Sokalski shows how MacKaye's famous Madison Square Theatre, which featured a double stage reminiscent of an elevator, created whirling pictorial illusions for fashionable New York. He argues that MacKaye's infamous failure, the colossal Spectatorium theatre for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, was the most complete realization of this illusionary aesthetic. Sokalski also explores MacKaye's influence on Buffalo Bill Cody and how civil war cycloramas expanded his concept of pictorial space. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773560291 0773560297 1282850245 9781282850248 9786612850240 6612850248 0773578080 9780773578081 |