American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance

by John Bell

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry.

292 pages, Hardcover

First published July 15, 2008

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[Jonathan Frederick Walz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thorough, engaging, well written, useful. 👍🏽👍🏽