Addition to the Boris Aronson Scenic Design Papers 1965-1972

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Addition to the Boris Aronson Scenic Design Papers 1965-1972

2 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder (3.0 linear feet)

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Aronson, Boris, 1900-1980

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Boris Aronson was born in Kiev in 1900, the son of a Jewish rabbi. He came of age in pre-revolutionary Russia in the city that was at the center of Jewish avant-garde theater. After attending art school in Kiev, Aronson served an apprenticeship with the Constructivist designer Alexandre Exter. Under Exter's tutelage and under the influence of the Russian theater directors Alexander Tairov and Vsevolod Meyerhold, whom Aronson admired, he rejected the fashionable realism of Stanislavs...