دانلود کتاب The Art of Scenic Design: A Practical Guide to the Creative Process

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Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nIllustrations\nForeword\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: . . . “And Just Like That”\n The Theatrical Identity Crisis—and the Opportunities it Presents\n Rely on Story—Always\n Adjacent Possible and the Liminal Space\n What has Changed . . . and What has Not\n1 The Designer as A Child Futurist\n Who I am and Why you Should Bother to Care\n The Creative Adult is the Child who Survived\n Creativity Scars\n Take the Risk of not Knowing\n You are a Designer Everyday\n Two Worlds that Collide at the Stage Edge\n2 Empathy and Answering, “What Story Are We Telling?” with Collaborators\n The Beginning of the Design Journey—and the Possibility Represented by “What If? . . .”\n Creating Creative Space\n The Design Jacket and how it Fits (or Does Not Fit) the Play\n If/Then as a Catalyst for Design Ideas\n Renaissance Teams\n3 The Importance of Research as “Fuel” for ANY Process\n The Playlist of the Mind\n Designer as Translator into a Visual Language\n Visual Alchemy\n Designer as Visual Collector (Bordering on Visual Hoarder)\n Get your Inspiration from ANYwhere!\n Responsibility to the Story as a Storyteller\n Identifying Patterns\n Identify your “Cup of Tea” . . . and Ignore That\n Primary and Secondary Research\n4 Clawing and Scratching Out an Idea\n Design is Messy . . . and Lose the Boxes\n Get Lost in the Woods\n Across Space and Time\n The Design Digestive System\n Avoiding the Self-edit\n Your Inner Clown\n What is Working? . . . and What isn’t?\n Answering “What If? . . .” with your Pencil\n Space, Time, and the Default Mode Network\n5 Modeling and Shaping an Object and an Idea\n You are Your own Instrument\n Don’t Tell Me, Show Me\n The Saint Joan Saga\n The Model: It’s not Jewelry. Don’t Fall in Love\n Modeling as Prototyping\n6 Creative Swings, Career Fields, and Collaboration\n Collaboration is Key\n The Myth of The Sole Genius\n The Path vs the Field\n Don’t Fit In. Don’t Try to Fit In\n Q-Theory and the Creative Team\n Design as Collaborative Craft\n7 The Tech and Preview Process—the Ultimate Proof-of-Concept\n Recognize Your Role\n A Musical Factory with Lessons to Spare\n The Leap of Faith\n The Playwright as Prophet\n The Promise of the Payoff\n8 The Inevitability of Failure and the Sea of Criticism\n Courage: The Man (or Woman or Person) in the Arena\n Do no Harm, Take no Shit\n A Moon for the Misbegotten and the Very Public Failure\n Channel the Haters: Prove them Wrong\n9 Where Do We Go From Here?\n The Certainty of Uncertainty\n Take Stock: What has not Changed\n Re-think the Theatre Volume: Where are we . . . and Where is “Where”?\n Don’t Box Up Your Artistic Shop!\nNotes\nFurther Reading\nIndex\nPlates