#stage art

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Stage decoration for William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"- by the Brückner brothers (1878)

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Max Brückner, Scenery for Tristan und Isolde (1906)

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Roeder’s Studio specializing in acrobatics and stage art

(Nina Leen. 1939?)

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Staff Pick of the Week

This week’s staff pick is Zeami and His Theories on Noh by Toyoichirō Nogami and translated by Ryōzō Matsumoto. It was published by Tsunetaro Hinoki in Tokyo in 1955. Noh is a form of classical Japanese stage art that originates from the Muromachi period (1336-1573). The word “Noh” means “to be able,” it signifies “talent” or “an exhibition of talent.” Zeami Motokiyo was a skilled actor and playwright who was born in 1363 and died in 1443. The author Toyoichirō considered Zeami the greatest of all the Noh artists.

I chose this book as my staff pick because I was drawn to the beautiful cover and colorful woodcuts. The two colored illustrations were originally drawn by Matsuno Sōfū and were made into woodcuts by publisher Unsodo. All the plates of the masks have been produced by Hisomu Mase from the originals treasured in the Kanze family. All the pictures of the stage performance were taken by Yoshi-hiko, expert photographer of the Kanze school.

The translator Ryōzō Matsumoto wrote about the author in a preface to the book:

“Dr. Toyoichirō Nogami was born on September 14, 1883; graduated from the Department of Literature, Imperial Univeristy of Tokyo in July 1908; made professor of English literature at Hosei University in Tokyo in 1920; and became President of the same institution in 1947. He received the degree of Doctor of Literature in 1938 and died on February 23, 1950.

He is one of the greatest scholars of Noh Japan has ever produced, especially noted for his systematization of Noh dramas into an organized form.

Yaeko Nogami, author’s widowed wife, says in her preface to the Japanese Noh Plays and How to See Them by her deceased husband: “It is hardly necessary to mention that Noh is one of the major stage arts Japan is proud of. But it is to be admitted that this precious heritage remained for many years an exclusive entertainment or pastime of the aristocracy and the leisured class. It was indeed Toyoichirō who took up the Noh as an object of study to clarify its universal nature. Versed in English literature, he approached Noh with the Western methodology. Analyzing it into the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of the art, and organizing it into a systematized form of presentation, he finally succeeded in establishing the aesthetics of Noh.”

Our copy of Zeami and His Theories on Noh includes a signed presentation inscription from the translator Ryōzō Matsumoto.

–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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three ambiances stage set work for a school asignement .

i did a bar in moornin evening and afternoon .

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Samhain Celebration 2018

An Evening of Dark Art and Music

The art dealers

The third Samhain Celebration combined again both finest black metal as well as exclusive hand-made art fitting to the event. Ybenhain offered resin jewelry and items all made of bizarre forest finds, from crazy colored beetles, weird spiders to plenty of animal teeth, combined with flora and fauna from the forest ground and trees. You can check…

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