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9781403979810

American Puppet Modernism Essays on the Material World in Performance

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    9781403979810

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    1403979812

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-07-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

In American Puppet Modernism, Bell reveals how understanding puppetry is integral to understanding the nature of the material world in performance and in turn argues that the material world in performance is integral as a means of communication. Insightfully describing and analyzing different types of object performance from the 1860s to 2007, Bell uses the common focus on material objects in performance to link the worlds of traditional puppetry, mechanized image performance, indigenous rituals, avant-garde theater, political street performance, advertising, Kustom Kulture, art cars, and film and television. American Puppet Modernism shows how modern American culture has developed and revealed itself in the performance of objects and offers a groundbreaking contribution to the history of puppet, mask, and object performance. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Bell is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and the Director of both the Ballard Institute and the Museum of Puppetry. He is a puppeteer and theatre historian who started his performance as a member of Bread and Puppet Theater and is a founding member of Great Small Works. 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Creditsp. xi
Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performancep. 1
The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic Historyp. 17
Shalako Puppets and Nineteenth-Century Ritualp. 31
The Little Theatre Movement and the Birth of the American Puppeteer: Midwest Puppet Modernismp. 49
New York Puppet Modernism: Remo Bufano and Jane Heapp. 71
Puppets and Propaganda: 1930s Parades in New York Cityp. 97
American Puppet Modernism in the 1930s: Gertrude Stein's Identityp. 123
From Sorcery to Science: Remo Bufano and World's Fair Puppet Theatrep. 137
Performing Objects, Special Effects, and Mass Mediap. 147
Automobile Performance and Kustom Kulturep. 167
Beyond the Cold War: Bread and Puppet Theater at the End of the Centuryp. 189
Old and New Materials: Wood, Paper, Metal, Plastic, Bonep. 219
Notesp. 231
Bibliographyp. 255
Publicationsp. 267
Indexp. 269
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