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Article: Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice.(Review)
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Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice. By Thomas F. Heck, with contributions from Robert Erenstein, M. A. Katritzky, Frank Peters, A. William Smith, and Lyckle de Vries. Rochester, N.Y: University of Rochester Press, 1999. [xii, 255 p. ISBN 1-58046-044-5. $49.50.]
The study of visual images as source material for historians of performing arts has at last matured into a recognized academic discipline, with an increasing number of journals devoted to the subject and rapidly growing databases, some already available online. As art museums and other image repositories develop comprehensive, illustrated, Web-accessible ...