Graphic tensions: what posters say about plays
Walsh, Fintan (2011) Graphic tensions: what posters say about plays. UNSPECIFIED.
Abstract
Introduction: For many people, a poster or flyer will be their first point of contact with a theatre production. In principle, these materials should carry basic information regarding who, what, where, and when; but also communicate something about the thrust of the performance itself: its directorial vision, its design choices, its aesthetic through-line. It’s all too easy to consider visual media of this kind as marketing pulp that performs a useful practical function, but not necessarily an artistic one. This is a mistake, and one which undermines not only graphic arts, but the visual arts at the heart of theatre practice, and the artistic spectrum in which they all participate.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Other |
|---|---|
| School: | School of Arts > English, Theatre and Creative Writing |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), Contemporary Theatre, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2014 16:16 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2020 17:20 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9452 |
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