Tendances Nouvelles du Théâtre. Choix de Décors, Costumes, Détails de Mise en Scène Utilisés dans les Représentations les Plus Originales de Ces Quinze Dernières Années. Précédé de Remarques sur les Récentes Recherches de l?Art du Théâtre

Book Description

Paris: Albert Levy. 1931. Thick Folio. H Buckram. Very Good.. Very Good. Paris: Éditions Albert Lévy, 1931. Thick folio, white buckram. Darkened at spine and edges with minor wear to cloth; still a very good, tight copy of this heavy book. One of 600 copies of the French e dition. ELIA KAZAN's copy inscribed to him by his wife (with initials), Christmas 1943.With 35 pages and 124 plates, each with several collotype illustrations, some hand- c olored by the pochoir method in the workshop of J. Saudé, plus collotype illustrations in the text, some also in pochoir. The photographs and drawings document performances, costume and stage design o f avant- garde theater and dan ce companies of Russia, Europe and the United States with work by Jacoleff, Popova, Exter, Bel Geddes, Léger, Picasso, et al., for productions by Tairoff, Meyerhold, Brec ht, Reinhardt, Vakhtangov and many others. Colas, 2145 bis.

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