No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Norman Bel Geddes' Notes on Art in the Theatre
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2010
Extract
Various people, during Bel Geddes' lifetime, wrote about his artistic ability and his achievements in the theatre. He did not often reveal his own ideas or artistic theories in published writings except in regard to theatre architecture. In addition to the chapter on theatres in his book, Horizons, there are several published articles appearing from 1919 to 1950 which describe his hopes for a large flexible, easily accessible, comfortable, and useable theatre structure to be built some day, somewhere in the United States. A more personal and theoretical article appeared in 1919 under the title, “The Theatre of the Future”.
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1962
References
NOTES
1. See the following articles: “Design for a New Kind of Theatre.” New York Times Magazine (November 30, 1947), 24–25; “Flexible Theatre,” Theatre Arts, XXXII (June-July, 1948), 48–49; “A Modern Theatre for the Classics,” Theatre Management, XXVI (November, 1931), pp. 8–9; “Six Theatre Projects,” Theatre Arts Monthly (September, 1930), 761–79; “Theatre Planning: A Symposium,” Educational Theatre Journal, 11 (March, 1950), 1–5.
2. “The Theatre of the Future,” Theatre Arts Magazine, III (April, 1919), 124.
3. Ibid., pp. 123–24.
4. These three files have been preserved in the theatre section of the Bel Geddes Collection, a gift of the Edgar G. Tobin Foundation to the Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Library, University of Texas.