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Scenography is not an autonomous art form. Its significance and capacity to visualise emerges through interaction with the actors on stage, and is preceded by the collaboration with directors and other artists involved in creating a performance. Therein lies its expressive complexity - and the challenge for the stage designer. In this book one of Swedens most acclaimed scenographers, Lars-Åke Thessman, discusses his profession from six different perspectives. In image and text, he guides us through the creative process, touching on the collaboration with the director and illustrating how sketches, models and drawings are translated into the magic of a full-scale stage design. The ephemeral nature of theatre means that it always stands in relation to time: artists of the stage draw in sand, but fleeting art also has a history that is well worth telling.

<strong>Marking the centenary of one of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings, <em>The Three Dancers</em>, this exciting publication brings to life the artist's performative persona and his interest in dance, music and theatre, alongside stunning reproductions of Picasso works.</strong><br/><br/>Filmmaker and artist Wu Tsang, whose practice is concerned with the act of performing, hidden histories and marginalised figures, collaborates here with the author and researcher Enrique Fuenteblanca to tell the story of Picasso 'the performer'. Along with other contributors, they cast light on his interest in dance, music and theatre, but also his highly performative persona as an artist, cultivating his own image and his contribution to the modernist cult of the individual artistic genius. <br/><br/>They also explore his constant gaze towards popular, or 'folk' performance, such as the circus, the corrida, flamenco dancers, the 'othered' in society, and groups who use performance as an emancipatory tool.<br/><br/>This beautifully designed book addresses head-on some of the complexities of Picasso's life and work from a highly unusual and compelling perspective.