by W. Owen Parker
Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
Paper: 978-0-8093-1350-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-8054-1
Library of Congress Classification PN2091.S8P34 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.025

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The first book to bring together the drafting techniques, descriptive geometry, engineering drawing, and graphics of perspective needed to plan and execute a setting for the theatre.


Parker presents these elements in a logical three-part format. “The Language of Lines” offers a study of drafting techniques, conventions, and symbols peculiar to the theatre; “Graphic Solutions” deals with the graphic problem-solving often needed to draw and make the frequent irregular forms of present-day scene design; and “Perspective in the Theatre” treats the two-dimensional perspective of the designer’s sketch and the three-dimensional perspective required for an illusion or stylistic concept.