Barnard Hewitt gift of Adolphe Appia materials.

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Barnard Hewitt gift of Adolphe Appia materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/750183020

Gift from Barnard Hewitt. Collection of photographs and typescripts on the work of the Swiss stage designer Adolphe Appia.

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Appia, Adolphe, 1862-1928

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Adolphe Appia was born on September 1, 1862 in Geneva, Switzerland. Regarded as the father of modern stage lighting and design, his reforms of stage design emphasized the significance of time and space, the relation of stage and auditorium, and the contrast of light and shadow. Appia's major works include La Mise en scène du drame Wagnérien (1895), Die Musik und die Inszenierung (1899), and L'Oeuvre d'art vivant (1921). Appia died in Nyon, Switzerland on February 29, 1928. From the...