Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban
Previous research on Joseph Urban (1872–1933) has focused on his architectural career; yet after moving from Vienna to the U.S. in 1912, he devoted much of his energies to the stage, especially productions for the Metropolitan Opera and the Ziegfeld Follies. A seminal figure in the history of American theater, he introduced to the U.S. the sophistication of European developments in stage design, experiments with lighting, and painterly effects which paralleled developments in modernist literature, painting, and dance.
Architect of Dreams documents more than 100 finely rendered watercolors, photographs, and three-dimensional stage models. Arnold Aronson (professor of theatre arts at Columbia University) contributes a major essay. In other essays, Derek E. Ostergard contextualizes Urban's architecture, and Matthew Wilson Smith examines Urban's work in film.

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Forward by David Rosand
Contribution by Gwynedd Cannan
10 1/2" x 8 1/4"; 78 pages; 101 illustrations, 50 in color
ISBN: 1884919081
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Author(s)
Arnold Aronson, Derek E. Ostergard, and Matthew Wilson Smith
Publishers
The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Publication Date
2000
In print | $30.00
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Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban
October 11–December 16, 2000
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