The dramatization of paintings: Methods and processes.
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Title
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The dramatization of paintings: Methods and processes.
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Identifier
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AAI9405557
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identifier
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9405557
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Creator
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Medoff, Richard Brad.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Daniel Gerould
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Date
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1993
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater
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Abstract
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This study examines the methods by which the cross-medium influences of the visual arts on playwriting are displayed. Paintings can appear either as part of the stage directions or actually be created as part of the activity of the play. They can appear as three dimensional representations of the painting where the actors stand in as the models for the characters in the painting. Other ways in which paintings appear on stage are as two dimensional projections, or as represented through the language (ekphrasis), music or structure of the play, or even recreated through the stage direction but never acknowledged as the direct influence for the scene.;This study begins with a survey of theoretical writings that speak of the cross influence of the arts. Taking what has been written about the visual art and applying it to its representation on stage, some of the methods and processes a playwright uses in dramatizing a painting are detailed. Starting with ekphrasis, this study examines the development of an ekphractic structure in which the structure of the play resembles a painting. Chapter 3 is devoted to those plays which take their inspiration from a painting. Paintings have been described as a "pregnant moment." Using this theory the plays in Chapter 4 dramatize paintings as symbols or icon of the play's theme. Playwrights use paintings as a historic record of a specific culture and society to authenticate the atmosphere of reality around plays about a historical event (Chapter 5) or of a specific biography (Chapter 6). Plays that recreate art have developed two structures related to metatheatre. Art lecture plays use a double framework of lecture and play. The last chapter examines plays in which the whole dramatic emphasis is towards recreating on stage the world of a painting. Since the world pictured on stage is the creation of one of the characters the plays are categorized as metacreational plays.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
