Del Teatro Teatrale Ossia Del Teatro (On Theatrical Theater, That Is, Theater) by Bragaglia, Anton Giulio - 1929

Rome: Edizioni Tiber,, 1929. Very Good. 4to, dark red cloth, lettering and device in white on black. Spine neatly rebacked, new endpapers; corners bumped. Text somewhat tanned due to quality of paper. Bragaglia's theory of stage design with 212 pages, profusely illustrated in black and white. Italian set designer, theater and film director and photographer, a key person in Italian futurist theater.Opened a theater in the ancient Roman baths of Septimus Severus with rooms decorated by Balla, Depero and Prampolini; called the Teatro degli Indipendenti, it showed the work of Jarry, Pirandello et al. Hulten, Futurism and Futurisms, pp. 435-436. Plays discussed and illustrated in the book include Jarry's Ubu Roi and Pirandello's L'uomo dal fiore in bocca and All'uscita, and scenic designs by Fornari, Lonanesi, Marana and others. Documentary photographs, mostly by Bragaglia, are not illustrated elsewhere. He was an exponent of uturist photography with the concept of "photodynamism".. Cloth. Very Good.. 4to.