Svet na stsene [Light on Stage]. By N. Izvekov. 428 pp. lllustrated throughout with in-text and full page black-&-white images plus one fold-out colour plate. 8vo., 215 x 145 mm, bound in publisher’s grey illustrated cloth. Leningrad; Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1940.
First Edition, one of 3000 copies. A comprehensive look at stage lighting with an emphasis on creating artistic theatrical imagery. Includes a look at the history of stage lighting and its application in the modern context. It also contains detailed discussions of lighting equipment including an interesting comparative table of lighting devices of Moscow and Leningrad theatres in 1937. The colour plate shows the different effects of lighting on cloth.
Worldcat finds two copies in the U.S., NYPL and the Cleveland Public Library. Small tear to the headcap, previous owner’s ink inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise in a very good condition.
