ARCHITECT OF DREAMS
THE THEATRICAL VISION OF JOSEPH URBAN
BY ARNOLD ARONSON
With ESSAYS BY DEREK E. OSTERGARD
AND MATTHEW WILSON SMITH
MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH ART GALLERY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
2000
This publication is issued in conjunction
with the exhibition
Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph
Urban held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art
Gallery,
Columbia University in the City of New York, 10 October to
16 December 2000.
This catalogue has been made possible,
in part, with the support of the
Austrian Cultural Institute, New York; Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards;
and the Central–National Gottesman Foundation.
Fig. 28 copyright OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V.,
with permission from Gordon and Breach Publishers;
Fig. 30 copyright 1925,1970 Theatre Arts Books; Fig. 50 reproduced
courtesy Rizzoli International Publications, New York
Published by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia
University in the City of New York
Copyright (c)2000 The Trustees of Columbia University in the
City of New York
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including
photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval
system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00–134260 ISBN
1–884919-08-1
Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle
FRONTISPIECE: Orpheum Circuit, 1925 (cat. 62)
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