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Strings, hands, shadows : a modern puppet history
- Title
- Strings, hands, shadows : a modern puppet history / John Bell.
- Author
- Bell, John, 1951-
- Publication
- Detroit, MI : Detroit Institute of Arts, ©2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Detroit Institute of Arts.
- Description
- 116 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Using the Paul McPharlin Collection of Puppets and Theater Arts, the author details the history of puppet art, and efforts to preserve puppets and puppet theater. Includes marionettes, hand puppets, rod and shadow puppets. The final chapter updates the history of puppetry through the latter half of the twentieth century.
- Series Statement
- DIAgram
- Uniform Title
- DIAgram
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113) and index.
- Contents
- An introduction to puppetry -- European puppets in the Old and New worlds -- Puppet theaters of Asia -- Innovations of puppet modernism -- The second wave of puppet moderism -- From the Sixties onward : another puppet renaissance.
- ISBN
- 0895581566
- 9780895581563
- LCCN
- 00065701
- OCLC
- ocm45446249
- 45446249
- SCSB-1254526
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library