Excerpt from Modern Art and the Theatre: Being Notes on Certain Approaches to a New Art of the Stage, With Special Reference to Parallel Developments in Painting, Sculpture and the Other Arts Most of the voluminous writing about the new art of the theatre is concerned with matters that ought now to be behind us. Twenty years ago it was important, in thelight of contemmrary practice, that some artist discover unity as applied to stage production. Even five years ago the ways of achieving a synthesis of the component parts of stage art seemed the most pressing theatrical prob lem. There has been legitimate excitement, too, over the discovery that a stage setting should be of a piece with the play and the acting: that there should be in charge an artist-director capable of visualizing the production as one harmonious whole: that the actor should subordinate his personality under the demands of dramatist and director: that modern inventions in lighting have opened new pos sibilities of re-enforcing theatrically the dramatist's intent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.