Picturing performance
Subtitle: the iconography of the performing arts in concept and practice
By: Thomas F. Heck with contributions from Robert Erenstein ... [et al.].
Contributors: Erenstein, R. L.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Entertainers in art.; Music in art.; Dance in art.; Theater in art.; Pictures -- History -- Sources.; Performing arts -- Information services.
Other titles: Iconography of the performing arts in concept and practice
Description: "In Picturing Performance, Thomas F. Heck has assembled a distinguished interdisciplinary team to review the theoretical and practical problems associated with traditional depictions of musicians, actors, and dancers. Lyckle de Vries, a noted Dutch art historian, explains and critiques Panofsky's iconographical method. Renaissance scholar M. A. Katritzky develops methodological principles common to all performing-arts iconography.

Heck traces the idea of icono-graphia from its distant Greek roots down to today's trendy world of icons and iconographies; he also provides a concise introduction to musical iconography. Robert Erenstein discusses the rise of theatre iconography with some choice Dutch examples. Frank Peeters and A.

William Smith respectively deal with scenography and dance iconography, and Heck's concluding chapters give practical information on where and how contemporary picture research is done, and predict future technological trends."--BOOK JACKET. "This handbook offers practical suggestions for getting started in picture research, providing the names and addresses (including Web and e-mail) of the most important visual resources and picture libraries in Europe and the U.S.A."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolving meanings of iconology and iconography / Thomas F. Heck - Iconography and iconology in art history / Lyckle de Vries - Discourses in applied iconography; performing-arts iconography / M.A. Katritzky; musical iconography / Thomas F. Heck; dance iconography / A. William Smith; theatre iconography / Robert Erenstein - Scenography, iconography, and semiotics / Frank Peeters - Selected iconographic research resources - Looking ahead: databases, image-bases, and access to visual resources in the age of the Internet / Thomas F. Heck - Bibliographic orientation to the iconographies of music, dance, and theatre / Thomas F. Heck.