03396nam 2200721Ia 450 991077821510332120231206215853.00-7735-7808-01-282-85024-597866128502400-7735-6029-710.1515/9780773560291(CKB)1000000000793224(SSID)ssj0000282848(PQKBManifestationID)11207538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282848(PQKBWorkID)10336315(PQKB)11135007(CaBNvSL)slc00221898(CaPaEBR)424795(Au-PeEL)EBL3331840(CaPaEBR)ebr10269402(CaONFJC)MIL285024(OCoLC)923232059(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/jhzr1p(MiAaPQ)EBC3331840(DE-B1597)655874(DE-B1597)9780773560291(MiAaPQ)EBC3260480(EXLCZ)99100000000079322420061012d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPictorial illusionism[electronic resource] the theatre of Steele MacKaye /J.A. SokalskiMontreal McGill-Queen's University Pressc2007xvi, 315 p. ill., facsims., maps, portsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-3204-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-308) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Artistic Foundations -- The Madison Square Theatre -- Innovations and Inventions at the Madison Square Theatre -- The Management of the Madison Square Theatre -- Civil War Cycloramic Oratory and The Drama of Civilization -- The Spectatorium and The Great Discovery -- Perfecting Pictorial Illusionism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexDrawing together a wealth of primary sources, J.A. Sokalski examines the aims, inventions, and methods of the pictorial style that defined MacKaye's art. Sokalski shows how MacKaye's famous Madison Square Theatre, which featured a double stage reminiscent of an elevator, created whirling pictorial illusions for fashionable New York. He argues that MacKaye's infamous failure, the colossal Spectatorium theatre for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, was the most complete realization of this illusionary aesthetic. Sokalski also explores MacKaye's influence on Buffalo Bill Cody and how civil war cycloramas expanded his concept of pictorial space.Dramatists, American19th centuryBiographyInventorsUnited StatesBiographyTheaterUnited StatesHistory19th centuryTheatersStage-setting and sceneryUnited StatesHistory19th centuryTheatrical managersUnited StatesBiographyDramatists, AmericanInventorsTheaterHistoryTheatersStage-setting and sceneryHistoryTheatrical managers792.092Sokalski J. A(Joseph Anton),1962-1580477MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778215103321Pictorial illusionism3861413UNINA