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Hi Rachel
These are among the sources in our reference library that we use when researching 20th set designers for the designinform database Design ProFILES *. The student would need to refer the individual books to indentify the designers who were also artists. Looking at the first book on the list I see the names of several fine artists including Picasso, Cocteau, John Piper, Rex Whistler, Edward Burra, and Helge Refn.
Hainaux, René. Stage design throughout the world since 1935 (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1956)
Hainaux, René. Stage design throughout the world since 1950 (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1964)
Hainaux, René. Stage design throughout the world since 1960 (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1972)
Komisarjevsky, Theodore and Simonson, Lee. Settings & costumes of the modern stage. (London: The Studio, 1933)
Whitworth, Geoffrey. Theatre in action. (London: The Studio, 1938)
Beaumont, Cyril W. Design for ballet. (London: The Studio, 1937)
Beaumont, Cyril W. Ballet design past & present. (London: The Studio, 1946)
Diaghilev: creator of the Ballets Russes. Edited and with text by Ann Kodicek (London: Lund Humphries, 1996). [Catalogue of an exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London in 1996. Includes designers of sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes. Many artists, of course worked for the Ballets Russes]
Baer, Nancy Van Norman. Paris modern: the Swedish Ballet 1929-1925. (San Francisco, California: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996 [Catalogue of a touring exhibition. Includes set and costume designers]
Crisp, Mary and Crisp, Clement. Design for Ballet. (London: Studio Vista, 1978) [much on 20th century set designers]
Cheshire, D.F. Bibliography of theatre and stage design: a select list of books and articles published 1960-1970 (London: Commission for British theatre production, 1974)
British theatre design 1979-1983. Faringdon, England: Twynam Publishing, 1983)
British theatre design 1983-1987. (Faringdon, England: Twynam Publishing, 1987)
Owen, Bobbi. Costume design on Broadway: designers and their credits, 1915-1985. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1987). [Contains something like 1,000 entries. Many costume designers were also set designers]
The Encyclopedia of World Theater. Introduction by Martin Esslin. (New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977)
* Design ProFILES currently contains data on 1,136 set designers
All the best
Chris
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Dear collective wisdom,
I have a student working on an independent study project on the topic of artists who were set designers in the 20th-21st centuries. While she has found tons of sources on individual artists who worked as set designers, she is looking for more compilations or comprehensive sources on the topic as a whole. I have tried searching for "set design" and "artists" as subjects in various databases (DAAI, Art Abstracts, to name a couple), but am also getting hit or miss relevancy (lots of articles/ books on individual artists, but no comprehensive articles on the topic as a whole). Any ideas from the great minds of ARLIS? Many thanks,
Rachel
Rachel Beckwith
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Hampshire College Library
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