Architect of Dreams

The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban

Arnold Aronson, Gwynedd Cannan, David Rosand

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Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery,U.S.
10 October 2000

Individual architects & architectural firms; Concert halls, arenas, stadia; Theatre: technical & background skills

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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.

By: Arnold Aronson, Gwynedd Cannan
Foreword by: David Rosand
Imprint: Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 273mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781884919084
ISBN 10: 1884919081
Pages: 78
Publication Date: 10 October 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active