Composition and Rendering
By A. Thornton Bishop
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1933
CONTENTS
Part I Composition
Part II A Review of Criticisms
Part III Lead Pencil Indication
Part IV Composition in the Theatre
Composing Dramatically
Concerning Traditions
Concerning Perspective
Concerning Scale
Concerning Mood
The Continental Craftsmen
Little Theatre Movement in America
Robert Edmond Jones
Lee Simonson
Livingston Platt
Norman Bel Geddes
Rollo Peters
Cleon Throckmorton
Part V Seeing and Selecting
FORWARD written by
Joseph Cummings Chase,
Head of Art Department,
Hunter College of the City of New York
PREFACE written by
A. Thornton Bishop
"Composition in the Theatre" serves a double purpose. It familiarizes all students with the means of acquiring dramatic power in compositions, and brings to all who are interested in scene design a consideration of theatre problems. Mood and scale are necessary to all successful works of art, and in the theatre we find a study of them most interesting. Artistic development in the independent theatres throughout the country has been so rapid that the amateur organizations now supply their respective communities with a dramatic fare of high quality. General interest is increasing. Interest in the technical phases of the theatre has so spread that, today, well-equipped workshops for scene painting are to be found in many schools and colleges.
No thing is beautiful, But all thinga await the sensitive and
Imaginative mind that may be around to pleasurable emotion
At sight of them. This is beautiful as we think it.
--" The Art Spirit ," by Robert Henri
ACKNOWLEDMENT
J. Monroe Hewlet, Traditions in Scene Painting, The American Architect
Poetry of Sara Teasdale