by Pierre Louis Duchartre
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"...fascinating collection of sketches, engravings, paintings and photographs..." -- American Theatre
Commedia dell'Arte originated (probably) in sixteenth-century Italy, and has been around ever since. It has added characters and changed names with changing countries, but its basic pattern runs through painting, circus, all forms of theater, and on into cinema. It will probably reach outer space in time. The characters have become archetypes; their antics are infinitely variable, and their relationships fluid enough to give artists the to convert them into sad or merry symbols at will. Ms. Lawner's history of the genre makes a pretty, amusing book that is also informative. -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe Lou Adams
The Commedia dell'Arte has a long history. Invented in the Renaissance as a popular entertainment, it has survived to the present day in experimental theatre and in Punch and Judy shows. The characters of Harlequin, Columbine and Pierrot have inspired artists from Tiepolo and Watteau to Picasso and Hockney, and composers from Schumann to Stravinsky. Playwrights have also been stimulated by these fanciful characters, including Shakespeare and Moliere. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes created Petrushka and Parade - music by Satie, choregraphy by Massine - and Nijinksy danced harlequin in The Carnival in 1910. The curious interaction of the Commedia dell'Arte and the visual arts, the history of the whole strange concept and its lasting inspiration - 'the first modern theatre' - are closely studied in this copiously illustrated work. (Kirkus UK)
"...fascinating collection of sketches, engravings, paintings and photographs..." -- American Theatre
Commedia dell'Arte originated (probably) in sixteenth-century Italy, and has been around ever since. It has added characters and changed names with changing countries, but its basic pattern runs through painting, circus, all forms of theater, and on into cinema. It will probably reach outer space in time. The characters have become archetypes; their antics are infinitely variable, and their relationships fluid enough to give artists the to convert them into sad or merry symbols at will. Ms. Lawner's history of the genre makes a pretty, amusing book that is also informative. -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe Lou Adams
The Commedia dell'Arte has a long history. Invented in the Renaissance as a popular entertainment, it has survived to the present day in experimental theatre and in Punch and Judy shows. The characters of Harlequin, Columbine and Pierrot have inspired artists from Tiepolo and Watteau to Picasso and Hockney, and composers from Schumann to Stravinsky. Playwrights have also been stimulated by these fanciful characters, including Shakespeare and Moliere. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes created Petrushka and Parade - music by Satie, choregraphy by Massine - and Nijinksy danced harlequin in The Carnival in 1910. The curious interaction of the Commedia dell'Arte and the visual arts, the history of the whole strange concept and its lasting inspiration - 'the first modern theatre' - are closely studied in this copiously illustrated work. (Kirkus UK)
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