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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... fast to be the deep thinker and original creator that Craig is. Indeed, neither of these two men is to be considered the perfect artist of the aesthetic theatre. What certain of Craig's o... More

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... fast to be the deep thinker and original creator that Craig is. Indeed, neither of these two men is to be considered the perfect artist of the aesthetic theatre. What certain of Craig's over-loyal friends cannot see is that in these pioneer days of the new art we need both men, the one complementing the other-- the bold thinker and the bold practitioner. Reinhardt is not Craig's ideal artist of the theatre, because the director's is not the creative hand throughout; his scenario or play is by one hand, the music by another, the settings and costumes by another, and the final staging by still another; so Reinhardt is more the orchestra leader who attempts to draw out from his helpers what a master intended, than the monumental sculptor who makes his own model and then works personally with his helpers in chiselling out the final form. Moreover he has that tendency toward sensationalism which has buried the spiritual qualities of his art under a pursuit of physical excitement. Nevertheless he is one of the two great figures of the first decade of the aesthetic theatre's history; and he as much as Craig has paved the way for those artists of the future who doubtless will have the virtues of both and the faults of The third notable form of aesthetic drama, the Russian Ballet, recently blazed its way across the dramatic horizon in a path of glory that temporarily dimmed every other form. The new dance-drama, er. that so far exists almost entirely in the achievement of the Russians, is less true an art of the theatre than the marionette drama or the mimo-drama, since it combines dancing, which often is considered an art in itself, and music, with the more typical theatric elements. It is the art of the perfect combination of color and line and movement and mu...

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