Sceno-Graphic Techniques

by Parker, W. Oren

• ISBN13: 9780809313501
• ISBN10: 0809313502
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-05-01
• Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr

Summary

The first book to bring together the drafting techniques, descriptive geometry, engineering drawing, and graphics of perspective needed to plan and execute a setting for the theatre. Parker presents these elements in a logical three-part format. "The Language of Lines" offers a study of drafting techniques, conventions, and symbols peculiar to the theatre; "Graphic Solutions" deals with the graphic problem-solving often needed to draw and make the frequent irregular forms of present-day scene design; and "Perspective in the Theatre" treats the two-dimensional perspective of the designer's sketch and the three-dimensional perspective required for an illusion or stylistic concept.

Author Biography

W. Oren Parker is Professor Emeritus, Carnegie-Mellon University. His Scene Design and Stage Lighting is a widely acknowledged classic.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Language of Lines	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Tooling Up	p. 5
Viewpoint	p. 11
Thick And Thin of It	p. 16
Inside Story	p. 20
Feet And Inches	p. 24
Another Angle	p. 32
Pictorials	p. 38
Floor Plans	p. 45
Elevations	p. 57
Graphic Solutions	p. 71
Space Patterns	p. 73
Surfaces	p. 74
True Length And Shape	p. 80
Examples	p. 88
Problems	p. 92
Perspective in the Theatre	p. 99
Two- Dimensional Perspective	p. 101
The Graphics Of Two- Dimensional Perspective	p. 106
Perspective Floor Grid And Designer's Sketch	p. 112
Three- Dimensional Perspective	p. 123
Three- Dimensional Foreshortening	p. 138
Extreme Viewpoints	p. 142
Problems	p. 147
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