Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book first deals with the basic elements of scenography, and looks at scenography from several theoretical and critical perspectives. It examines the scenographic outside the traditional performative settings. Scenography, meaning the organization and arrangement of the spatial and visual, has increasingly been applied across a broad spectrum of disciplines. The scenographic has now become a descriptor applicable to any work that engages in the visual and spatial, including those well beyond the traditional confines of either theatre or architecture. The book looks at scenography from the perspective of literary drama, the scopic regime, the event space, and the technological, as well as scenography in the visual arts, and in museum exhibition design. It also deals with history and practice subdivided into thematic sections.