Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.
- noun Visual design for theatrical productions, including such elements as sets, costumes, and lighting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The representing of an object, as a building, according to the rules of perspective, and from a point of view not on a principal axis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
design of theatricalsets . - noun The art or act of
representing abody on aperspective plane . - noun A
representation ordescription of a body, in all itsdimensions , as it appears to theeye .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The scenography is rough and colossal (industrial scafolding structures) but there are only 4 rooms to cross, bathed in a semi-darkness, kinda half-night.
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The list of designers rethinking the rituals and scenography around food, the act of eating, and the whole multi-sensorial experience, has become quite extensive and it seems to be exponentially multiplying by the second.
Patricia Brizzio: Food for Thought: Can Design In Food Reach New Potentials? Patricia Brizzio 2011
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Various projects explore scenography as a discipline existing in-between the visual and the performing arts.
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Kerchache's desire has been well matched by the Italian contemporary designer Enzo Mari, who has created a deliberately pared-down scenography for the exhibition.
Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell Tobias Grey 2011
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Performances include Prime Mover, a piece by Jonah Bokaer that employs a constellation of satellites and GPS receivers, and Confined, a piece by Emily Berry that combines live music by violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, the spoken word by writer Todd Craig and scenography by Gail Scott White.
Starving Artists Get Assistance Shelly Banjo 2010
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Public spaces in these facilities feature eye-popping scenography: huge timber trusses here, an 82-foot-tall stone fireplace there.
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Here the places are no more than badly painted scenography in front of which the story unravels.
Ian Cameron Esslemont - Return of the Crimson Guard (Book Review) 2008
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Here the places are no more than badly painted scenography in front of which the story unravels.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Donbass Arena Glossary cluster звуковой кластер из колонок stage furniture обшивка сцены props реквизиты lighting trusses металлоконструкции для света scaff рабочие на лесах stage hand разнорабочий operating area производственная площадь stage scenography сценические декорации chain hoist motors цепные лебёдки rigging stage roof высотные работы по поднятию сцены gibbet стрела крана catering питание vomitory запасный выход plywood фанера logistic перевозки
Archive 2009-08-30 2009
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Donbass Arena Glossary cluster звуковой кластер из колонок stage furniture обшивка сцены props реквизиты lighting trusses металлоконструкции для света scaff рабочие на лесах stage hand разнорабочий operating area производственная площадь stage scenography сценические декорации chain hoist motors цепные лебёдки rigging stage roof высотные работы по поднятию сцены gibbet стрела крана catering питание vomitory запасный выход plywood фанера logistic перевозки
qms commented on the word scenography
Potemkin knew ways to delude.
His town was struck down and renewed
Repeatedly, doggedly,
A feat of sceneography,
The man was a talented dude.
August 9, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word scenography
Nice one, qms!
August 9, 2017
qms commented on the word scenography
Thank you kindly, ruzuzu. The challenge with such words is to resist the obvious "-ography" rhymes but after years of this I am running out of dodges.
August 10, 2017